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Susan ThistlePublication Details
BookUniversity of California Press2006Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HD6095 .T49 2006 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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This timely study, a broad comparative analysis of African American women’s and white women’s changing relationships to home and work over the past forty years, at last provides a wide-ranging overview of how this shift is influencing the shape of families and the American economy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- A world turned inside out
- Support for women’s domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- The breakdown of women’s domestic economy after World War II
- Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance - - The formation of a female underclass
- The "new economy" and the transformation of women’s work
- How and why mothers have been shortchanged
- New possibilities and old inequalities
ISBN
- 0520246462
- 9780520246461
- 0520245903
- 9780520245907
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