Author:
Thistle, Susan.
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Descriptionxiv, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:A world turned inside out -- Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II -- Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance -- The formation of a female underclass -- The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work -- How and why mothers have been shortchanged -- New possibilities and old inequalities.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-286) and index.
