Making the American Home: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840–1940
Making the American Home: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840–1940
edited by Marilyn F. Motz and Pat Browne
University of Wisconsin Press, 1988 Cloth: 978-0-87972-433-7 | Paper: 978-0-87972-434-4 Library of Congress Classification TX23.M35 1988 Dewey Decimal Classification 640.973
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The transformation of a house into a home has been in our culture a traditional task of women. The articles examine this process as they reflected the role of American middle-class women as homemakers in the years 1840–1940.