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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394510240
ISBN-139780394510248
eBay Product ID (ePID)4480291
Product Key Features
TopicGeneral
Book TitleNever Done : a History of American Housework
Publication Year1982
Number of PagesXvi, 365 P. : Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-Classifiable, House & Home
AuthorSusan Strasser
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight28 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN81-048234
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal640/.973
SynopsisFinally back in print, with a new Preface by the author, this lively, authoritative, and pathbreaking study considers the history of material advances and domestic service, the "women's separate sphere," and the respective influences of advertising, home economics, and women's entry into the workforce. "Never Done" begins by describing the household chores of nineteenth-century America: cooking at fireplaces and on cast-iron stoves, laundry done with boilers and flatirons, endless water-hauling and fire-tending, and so on. Strasser goes on to explain and explore how industrialization transformed the nature of women's work. Easing some tasks and eliminating others, new commercial processes inexorably altered women's daily lives and relationships--with each other and with those they served.
LC Classification NumberTX23.S77 1982
