Domesticity and dirt : housewives and domestic servants in the United States, 1920-1945
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Domesticity and dirt : housewives and domestic servants in the United States, 1920-1945
（Women in the political economy）
Temple University Press, 1989
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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alk. paper ISBN 9780877225850
内容説明
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 the job while relegating the hard physical work and demeaning service tasks to servants mainly women of color. Using novels, films, magazine articles, home economics texts, and government-funded domestic training course manuals, the author details cultural expectations about middle-class homelife. Palmer describes how government-funded education programs encouraged the divisions of labor and identity and undercut domestic workers' organized efforts during the 1930s to win inclusion in New Deal programs regulating labor conditions. Aided by less powerful black civil rights groups, without the assistance of trade unions or women's clubs, domestics failed to win legal protections and the legal authority and self-respect these brought to covered workers.
The author also reveals how middle- class women responded ambivalently to the call to aid women workers when labor reforms threatened their domestic arrangements. Throughout her study, Palmer questions why white middle-class women looked to new technology and domestic help to deal with cultural demands upon 'the perfect housewife' rather than expecting their husbands to help. When the supply of servants declined during the 1950s, middle-class housewives were left isolated with lots of housework. Although they rapidly followed their servants into paid work outside the home, they remain responsible for housework and child care. Author note: Phyllis Palmer is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and American Studies at The George Washington University.
目次
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Domestic Work Between the Wars 2. The Housewife in a Modern Marriage 3. The Businessman's Wife at Work 4. The Domestic Does Her Job 5. Education for the Vocation of Housework 6. Negotiating the Law of Service 7. Dirt and Division Among Women Afterword Notes Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780877229018
内容説明
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 the job while relegating the hard physical work and demeaning service tasks to servants—mainly women of color. Using novels, films, magazine articles, home economics texts, and government-funded domestic training course manuals, the author details cultural expectations about middle-class homelife.Palmer describes how government-funded education programs encouraged the divisions of labor and identity and undercut domestic workers’ organized efforts during the 1930s to win inclusion in New Deal programs regulating labor conditions. Aided by less powerful black civil rights groups, without the assistance of trade unions or women’s clubs, domestics failed to win legal protections and the legal authority and self-respect these brought to covered workers. The author also reveals how middle- class women responded ambivalently to the call to aid women workers when labor reforms threatened their domestic arrangements.Throughout her study, Palmer questions why white middle-class women looked to new technology and domestic help to deal with cultural demands upon "the perfect housewife" rather than expecting their husbands to help. When the supply of servants declined during the 1950s, middle-class housewives were left isolated with lots of housework. Although they rapidly followed their servants into paid work outside the home, they remain responsible for housework and child care.In the series Women in the Political Economy, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg.
目次
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Domestic Work Between the Wars
2. The Housewife in a Modern Marriage
3. The Businessman's Wife at Work
4. The Domestic Does Her Job
5. Education for the Vocation of Housework
6. Negotiating the Law of Service
7. Dirt and Division Among Women
Afterword
Notes
Index
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