Mothers and such : views of American women and why they changed
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HQ1410 .M36 1984
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x, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index.
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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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Margolis, M. L. (1984). Mothers and such: views of American women and why they changed . University of California Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Margolis, Maxine L., 1942-. 1984. Mothers and Such: Views of American Women and Why They Changed. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Margolis, Maxine L., 1942-. Mothers and Such: Views of American Women and Why They Changed Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

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Margolis, M. L. (1984). Mothers and such: views of american women and why they changed. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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Margolis, Maxine L. Mothers and Such: Views of American Women and Why They Changed University of California Press, 1984.

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