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From Working Girl to Working Mother

The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980

Lynn Weiner

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 08/2016
Pages: 200
Subject: History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469610283

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In this fresh perspective on one of the major demographic trends in our history, Weiner skillfully interweaves evidence on women's employment, government social policy, and the contemporary debate about women's sphere to explore the interconnections between patterns of women's work and the ideologies that arose in response to that work. In uniting the sources and methods of social and intellectual history, the author illuminates the changes in women's lives during the past 250 years.

Originally published in 1985.

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