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

Main Author: Thistle, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2006.
Subjects:
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.