History of Women in the United States : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. Volume 4/1, Domestic Ideology and Domestic Work

Contents Series Preface Introduction Domestic Ideology and Domestic Work American Feminine Ideals in Transition: The Rise of the Moral Mother, 1785–1815 To Earn Her Daily Bread: Housework and Antebellum Working-Class Subsistence The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820–1860 Sentimental Womanhood and Domestic Education, 1830–1870 Women Shoeworkers and Domestic Ideology: Rural Outwork in Early Nineteenth-Century Essex County The Domestic Balance of Power Relations Between Mistress and Maid in Nineteenth-Century New England Freedom’s Yoke: Gender Conventions among Antebellum Free Black Women’s Perspective on the Patriarchy in the 1850s Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History Household Values, Women s Work, and Economic Growth 1800–1930 American Women and Domestic Consumption, 1800-1920: Four Interpretive Themes Women as Workers, Women as Civilizers: True Womanhood in the American West Cloth, Butter and Boarders: Women’s Household Production for the Market ‘The Sphinx in the Household’: A New Look at the History of Household Workers Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.