If All We Did Was Weep at Home: A History of White Working-Class Women in America
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0253202671
ISBN 13
9780253202673
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Publication Year
1981
Publisher
Pages
352
Subject
Women - United States - History |Working class women - United States | Women - United States - Social conditions
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Description
pt. 1. "She must be married, because she don't work": 1600-1900 ; Women, girls, and ladies in early America ; Temporary working-class women ; Immigrant women from several cultures ; Industrialization and organization -- pt. 2. "I can't live on hopes and virtue": 1900-40 ; Working-class women become working class women ; Self-help without self-awareness ; The progressive dilemma of protection ; Confusion between the wars -- pt. 3. "You would cry, too": 1940-77 ; False promises in World War II ; Mixed signals in postwar work ; Postwar challenges to home and community ; Contemporary beginnings of awareness.
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