Women as Workers, Women as Civilizers: True Womanhood in the American West

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Domestic Ideology and Domestic Work
6. American Feminine Ideals in Transition: The Rise of the Moral Mother, 1785–1815 3
7. To Earn Her Daily Bread: Housework and Antebellum Working-Class Subsistence 29
8. The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820–1860 48
9. Sentimental Womanhood and Domestic Education, 1830–1870 72
10. Women Shoeworkers and Domestic Ideology: Rural Outwork in Early Nineteenth-Century Essex County 90
11. The Domestic Balance of Power: Relations Between Mistress and Maid in Nineteenth-Century New England 116
12. Freedom’s Yoke: Gender Conventions among Antebellum Free Blacks 134
13. Women’s Perspective on the Patriarchy in the 1850s 160
14. Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History 173
15. Household Values, Women s Work, and Economic Growth 1800–1930 204
16. American Women and Domestic Consumption, 1800-1920: Four Interpretive Themes 215
17. Women as Workers, Women as Civilizers: True Womanhood in the American West 244
18. Cloth, Butter and Boarders: Women’s Household Production for the Market 264
19. ‘The Sphinx in the Household’: A New Look at the History of Household Workers 291