Mothers and such : views of American women and why they changed / Maxine L. Margolis.

Why was motherhood barely mentioned as a discrete role in eighteenth-century sermons? And why, beginning in the 1830s, did it become the foucs of attention in domestic manuals and other forms of popular literature addressed to middle-class women? Maxine L. Margolis examines these and other questions...

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Main Author: Margolis, Maxine L., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1984]
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505 0 |a The anthropological perspective -- Putting mothers on the pedestal -- Mothers descend -- Good housekeeping -- House beautiful -- When is a woman's place in the home? -- She has only herself to blame -- Epilogue: Where do we go from here? 
520 |a Why was motherhood barely mentioned as a discrete role in eighteenth-century sermons? And why, beginning in the 1830s, did it become the foucs of attention in domestic manuals and other forms of popular literature addressed to middle-class women? Maxine L. Margolis examines these and other questions about the changing roles of middle-class women. Her conclusion is that "we have come to think of as inevitable and biologically necessary is in great measure a consequence of our society's particularly social and economic system." She cites the influence of such variables as household versus industrial production, a manufacturing versus a service-oriented economy, the demand or lack of demand for women's labor, the economy's need for "high quality" employees, and the changing costs and benefits of rearing the middle-class children who would become those employees. This convincing analysis asserts that there are well-defined material cuases for ceontempoary attutides toward women and work, for new ideas about child rearing, for the changing nature of housework, and for the revival of feminism. -- From publisher's description. 
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