Voices of American homemakers
By: Eleanor Arnold, editor and project director.
Contributors: Arnold, Eleanor.; National Extension Homemakers Council (U.S.)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Home economics -- United States -- History.; Housewives -- United States -- Interviews.
Description: Voices of American is a book about women, family values, and making a life in rural America in the first half of this century. It distills some 200 oral histories collected from 37 states organized around the essential rites and functions of life: growing up, education, courtship, marriage, child rearing, the homemaker and her work, the organizations that supported her, and her sense of self.
Notes: "From an oral history project of the National Extension Homemakers Council, on the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary"--T.p. verso.
Originally published: Hollis, N.H. : National Extension Homemakers Council, c1985.