From marriage to the market the transformation of women's lives and work /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thistle, Susan.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • A world turned inside out
  • Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II
  • Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance
  • The formation of a female underclass
  • The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work
  • How and why mothers have been shortchanged
  • New possibilities and old inequalities.