More Work For Mother rules for disappearing a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco

a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)

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the rising tide of Nazism in 1930s Germany

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More Work For Mother rules for disappearing a late-night page-turner" (San FranciscoIn this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to housework as did their colonial sisters. In lively and provocative prose, Cowan explains how the modern convenienceswashing machines, white flour, vacuums, commercial cottonseemed at first to offer working class women middle class standards of comfort. Over