Glenna Matthews
Auteur de "Just a Housewife": The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
A propos de l'auteur
Glenna Matthews is a historian who has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University
Œuvres de Glenna Matthews
The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970 (1992) 30 exemplaires
The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California (2012) 17 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
America's Working Women: A Documentary History 1600 to the Present (1976) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 138 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Matthews, Glenna Christine
- Date de naissance
- 1938
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Études
- San Jose State University (BA)
Stanford University (MA, PhD) - Professions
- History professor, Oklahoma State University
- Organisations
- American History Association
Organization of American Historians
Membres
Critiques
"Just a housewife" : the rise and fall of do… par Glenna Matthews
During the 19th century there was such reverence for the home that housewifes were able to maintain significant self respect. They saw themselves as guardians of moral and ethical values often spurned in the world of business. By the 20th century, less esteem was placed on the role of homemaker and women's views of themselves reflected that.
Being an awkward attempt to elucidate California's Civil War years through the prism of small-to-medium Unitarian celebrity King. The book is well-researched and adequately written, but King's presence mandates digressions into uninteresting tangents such as the history of Unitarianism and Transcendentalism in New England, fundraising for military charity the U.S. Sanitary Commission, and sightseeing in the Yosemite country, to the point that King becomes a very unwelcome guest. Since the author declines any opportunities to tell a military story, brushing off the CSA expedition to conquer the state in a few paragraphs, that leaves her sections on ethnic and party politics in the state as the main point of interest in the book.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 156
- Popularité
- #134,405
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 21