More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

nonfiction feminism history technology challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

288 pages | first published 1983

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In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to housework as did their colonial sisters. In lively ...
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