Mother-Work
Subtitle: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930 (Women in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: March 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780252064821
Subjects: Women's studies; Women's Studies - History; History / United States / 19th Century; Sociology
First sentence: When Robert and Helen Lynd investigated childrearing in Muncie, Indiana, in the 1920s, they were struck by the "eagerness" of mothers in both the working and business classes "to lay hold of every available resource for help in training their children."