| Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family, and Social Change in Ninteenth-Century Massachusetts Contributor(s): Porter, Susan L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1558490051 ISBN-13: 9781558490055 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1996 Annotation: These essays reflect the complexity and richness of current scholarship in women's history. Informed by a variety of source materials and methodologies, the ten chapters break down a generalized construct of "womanhood" to explore the dynamics between gender, race, ethnicity, and class. The first section of the book focuses on women's work, paid and unpaid, and the effects of class, ethnicity, and gender on the structure of the job market and on power relations within the family. The second section revisits the concept of "sisterhood" by looking at women in relation to their families, social and cultural networks, and civic and private institutions. The editor's introduction sets the essays in the current historiographical context of women's studies and provides a bibliographical essay for the nonspecialist reader. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 95021715 |
| Lexile Measure: 1500 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6" W x 8.92" (0.86 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These essays reflect the complexity and richness of current scholarship in women's history. Informed by a variety of source materials and methodologies, the ten chapters break down a generalized construct of womanhood to explore the dynamics between gender, race, ethnicity, and class. The first section of the book focuses on women's work, paid and unpaid, and the effects of class, ethnicity, and gender on the structure of the job market and on power relations within the family. The second section revisits the concept of sisterhood by looking at women in relation to their families, social and cultural networks, and civic and private institutions. The editor's introduction sets the essays in the current historiographical context of women's studies and provides a bibliographical essay for the nonspecialist reader. |