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Making the American Home
Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture,
1840–1940

Edited by Marilyn F. Motz and Pat Browne

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The transformation of a house into a home has been in our culture a traditional task of women. The articles examine this process as they reflected the role of American middle-class women as homemakers in the years 18401940.

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Cover of Making the American Home is orange with a woman sweeping.

LC: 88-070387 TX
218 pp. 6 x 9
18 b/w photos, 11 b/w illus.

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Paper $16.95 t
ISBN 978-0-87972-434-4

Cloth $39.95 t
ISBN 978-0-87972-433-7
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