Domesticity and Dirt Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945

• Main Author: Palmer, Phyllis (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Temple University Press 1989
• Subjects: Social & cultural history; Industrial arbitration & negotiation; Gender studies: women; History; Sociology; Political Science
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In the era after Suffrage, white middle-class housewives abandoned moves toward paid work for themselves, embraced domestic life, and felt entitled to servants. In Domesticity and Dirt, Phyllis Palmer examines the cultural norms that led such women to take on the ornamental and emotional elements of...