"Just a housewife"
Subtitle: the rise and fall of domesticity in America
By: Glenna Matthews.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Women  -- United States  -- Social conditions.; Housewives  -- United States  -- History  -- 19th century.; Housewives  -- United States  -- History  -- 20th century.
Description: Examines the role of housewife and the esteem attached to the position both in the nineteenth century and in the twentieth.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 227-262.