Housewifery, Gender & the Domestication of
Technology:
Working Bibliography
Ashwani
Vasishth <ashwani@csun.edu > [Last
Update: October 12, 2005]
Aukin, Liane "Doing it
better than mother.” History
Today 53.4 (2003): 31- 37. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Bahr, Kathleen Slaugh,
Ahlander, Nancy Rollins "Morality, feminism, and family work: A reply to
Sanchez's commentary.” Journal
of Marriage and the Family 58.2 (1996): 520. Research Library Core.
ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Baillargeon, Denyse. 1999. Making Do:
Women, Family, and Home In Montreal During the Great Depression.
(Translated By Yvonne Klein.) Waterloo, ONT: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
[Translation of: M*Enag*Eres Au Temps De La Crise.]
Bashford, Alison "Domestic
scientists: Modernity, gender, and the negotiation of science in Australian
nursing, 1880-1910.” Journal of
Women's History 12.2 (2000): 127-146. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC,
Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Berleant-Schiller, Riva
"Women, work, and gender in the Caribbean: Recent research.” Rev. of:
title_of_work_reviewed_in_italics, clarifying_information. Latin American
Research Review 34.1 (1999): 201-211. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC,
Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Boris, Eileen & S J
Kleinberg "Mothers and Other Workers: (Re)Conceiving Labor, Maternalism,
and the State.” Journal of
Women's History 15.3 (2003): 90-117. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC,
Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Bourke, Joanna. 1993. Husbandry To
Housewifery: Women, Economic Change, and Housework In Ireland, 1890-1914.
Oxford, England: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press.
Boydston, Jeanne. 1990. Home and Work:
Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor In the Early Republic. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Bray, Francesca. 1997. Technology and
Gender: Fabrics of Power In Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of
California Press.Cahn, Susan. 1987. Industry of Devotion: The Transformation
of Women's Work In England, 1500-1660. New York: Columbia University Press.
Breines, Wini
"Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America.” The New England Quarterly 73.3
(2000): 515. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Clendinning, Anne "Gas
and water feminism: Maud Adeline Brereton and Edwardian domestic
technology.” Canadian Journal
of History 33.1 (1998): 1-24. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Cohen, Daniel. 1982. The Last Hundred
Years, Household Technology. New York: M. Evans. [Describes the evolution
of inventions which have lightened household drudgery, and includes a look at
gadgets that didn't catch on and also at future possibilities.] {Household
Appliances--United States--History--Juvenile Literature; Technology;
Inventions.}
Cohen, Emily Jane
"Kitschen Witches: Martha Stewart: Gothic Housewife, Corporate CEO.” Journal of Popular Culture 38.4
(2005): 650-677. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. 1983. More Work for
Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology From the Open Hearth To the
Microwave. New York: Basic Books.
Crew, David F "Gender,
Media and Consumerism in Germany 1920s-1950s.” Rev. of: title_of_work_reviewed_in_italics, clarifying_information.
Journal of Social History 32.2 (1998): 395-402. Research Library Core.
ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Cronin, Mary M
"Redefining woman's sphere: New England's antebellum female textile
operatives' magazines and the response to the "cult of true
womanhood".” Journalism
History 25.1 (1999): 13-25. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Daly, Mary E "Women in
the Irish Free State, 1922-39: The interaction between economics and
ideology.” Journal of Women's
History 6,7.1 (1995): 99. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Davison, Jane & Lesley Davison (eds.).
1980. To Make A House A Home: Four Generations of American Women and the
Houses They Lived In. New York: Random House. [Rev. Ed. of: Fall of A
Doll's House. 1980.]
Davy, Jennifer Anne
"Interpreting marital status as a political and cultural marker in
Mid-twentieth-century Germany.”
Rev. of: title_of_work_reviewed_in_italics, clarifying_information. Journal
of Women's History 14.1 (2002): 198-201. Research Library Core. ProQuest.
USC, Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
de Ruijter, Esther &
Judith K Treas, Philip N Cohen "Outsourcing the Gender Factory: Living
Arrangements and Service Expenditures on Female and Male Tasks.” Social Forces 84.1 (2005):
305-322. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Denton, Melinda Lundquist
"Gender and Marital Decision Making: Negotiating Religious Ideology and
Practice*.” Social Forces
82.3 (2004): 1151-1180. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Dugan, Holly
"Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern
England.” Rev. of:
title_of_work_reviewed_in_italics, clarifying_information. Criticism 45.4 (2003): 539-542.
Humanities Module. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Gamber, Wendy
"Tarnished labor: The home, the market, and the boardinghouse in
antebellum America.” Journal of
the Early Republic 22.2 (2002): 177- 204. Humanities Module. ProQuest. USC,
Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Giles, Judy "Narratives
of gender, class, and modernity in women's memories of mid-twentieth century
Britain.” Signs 28.1
(2002): 21-41. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Gurstein, Penny. 2001. Wired to the World,
Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life. Vancouver: University of British
Columbia Press. ["...gives an extremely valuable, comprehensive view of
the telework boom that integrates her own studies in Canada with world-wide
literature on the subject. She gives a scholarly appraisal of telework's many
forms and shows how they differ in their human impacts."]
Harrison, Cynthia
"Bridges and barriers: Sex, class, and race in twentieth- century U.S.
women's movements.” Rev. of:
title_of_work_reviewed_in_italics, clarifying_information. Journal of
Women's History 13.4 (2002): 191-199. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC,
Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Hayden, Sara
"Negotiating femininity and power in the early twentieth century West:
Domestic ideology and feminine style in Jeannette Rankin's suffrage
rhetoric.” Communication
Studies 50.2 (1999): 83-102. Humanities Module. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles,
CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Heineman, Elizabeth D
"Single motherhood and maternal employment in divided Germany: Ideology,
policy, and social pressures in the 1950s.” Journal of Women's History 12.3 (2000): 146-172.
Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Higgs, Catherine
"Zenzele: African Women's Self-Help Organizations in South Africa,
1927-1998.” African Studies
Review 47.3 (2004): 119-141. International Module. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Hoover, Robert & John Hoover. 1993. An
American Quality Legend: How Maytag Saved Our Moms, Vexed the Competition, and
Presaged America's Quality Revolution. New York: Mcgraw-Hill. {Maytag
Company--History; Electric Household Appliances Industry--United States;
Quality of Products.}
Horowitz, Roger & Arwen Mohun (eds.).
1998. His And Hers: Gender, Consumption, and Technology.
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia.
Kerrison, Catherine
"The Novel As Teacher: Learning To Be Female In the Early American
South.” The Journal of Southern
History 69.3 (2003): 513. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Khor, Diana "Organizing
for change: Women's grassroots activism in Japan.” Feminist Studies 25.3 (1999): 633-661. Research
Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Kyung, Lee Jae "The
Glorification of 'Scientific Motherhood' as an Ideological Construct in Modern
Korea.” Asian Journal of
Women's Studies 5.4 (1999): 9. GenderWatch (GW). ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Lang, Susan S "Home
economics was a gateway for women into higher education, science careers.” Human Ecology 28.4 (2000): 2.
Social Science Module. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Lee, Ching Kwan
"Engendering the worlds of labor: Women workers, labor markets, and
production politics in the south China economic miracle.” American Sociological Review
60.3 (1995): 378. ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Lerman, Nina E. ""Preparing for the duties
and practical business of life": Technological knowledge and social
structure in mid-19th-century Philadelphia.” Technology and Culture 38.1 (1997): 31-59. Research
Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Lerman, Nina E., Arwen
Palmer Mohun, Ruth Oldenziel "Versatile tools: Gender analysis and the
history of technology.” Technology
and Culture 38.1 (1997): 1. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Lifshey, Earl. 1973. The Housewares
Story; A History of the American Housewares Industry. Chicago, National
Housewares Manufacturers Association.
Linton, Joan P. 1998. The Romance of the
New World: Gender and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism.
Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Mack, Phyllis "Women
and gender in early modern England.”
Rev. of: title_of_work_reviewed_in_italics, clarifying_information. The
Journal of Modern History 73.2 (2001): 379-392. Research Library Core.
ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Margolis, Maxine L. 1984. Mothers and
Such: Views of American Women and Why They Changed. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Martineau, Rowena
"Women and education in South Africa: Factors influencing women's
educational progress and their entry into traditionally male- dominated
fields.” The Journal of Negro
Education 66.4 (1997): 383-395. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Matthews, Glenna. 1987. "Just A
Housewife": The Rise and Fall of Domesticity In America. New York:
Oxford University Press.
McMillan, James F. 1981. Housewife Or
Harlot: The Place of Women In French Society 1870-1940. New York: St.
Martin's Press.
Moskowitz, Eva
""It's good to blow your top": Women's magazines and a discourse
of discontent, 1945-1965.” Journal
of Women's History 8.3 (1996): 66-98. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC,
Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Ogden, Annegret S. 1986. The Great
American Housewife: From Helpmate To Wage Earner, 1776-1986. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press.
Palmer, Phyllis M. 1989. Domesticity and
Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants In the United States, 1920-1945.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Parr, Joy "What makes
washday less blue? Gender, nation, and technology choice in postwar
Canada.” Technology and Culture
38.1 (1997): 153-186. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Peyroux, Catherine
"Women and the Social Imagination in Medieval Europe.” Rev. of:
title_of_work_reviewed_in_italics, clarifying_information. Feminist
Collections 19.4 (1998): 1. GenderWatch (GW). ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles,
CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Read, Jen'nan Ghazal
"Cultural Influences on Immigrant Women's Labor Force Participation: The
Arab-American Case1.” The
International Migration Review 38.1 (2004): 52-77. Research Library Core.
ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Read, Jen'nan Ghazal
"The source of gender role attitudes among Christian and Muslims
Arab-American women.” Sociology
of Religion 64.2 (2003): 207-222. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Reagin, Nancy "The
imagined Hausfrau: National indentity, domesticity, and colonialism in imperial
Germany.” The Journal of Modern
History 73.1 (2001): 54-86. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Robertson, Una A. 1997. An Illustrated
History of the Housewife, 1650-1950. New York: St. Martin's Press.
[Contents: Who are the housewives? -- Fuels and fireplaces -- Lighting the home
-- Water and drainage -- The workforce -- Cleaning: methods and mixtures --
Laundrywork -- The means of cooking -- Provisioning the household -- Storage
and preservation of food -- Meals and mealtimes -- Drinks -- Pastimes and
pleasures around the home -- Pastimes and pleasures outside the home -- The
housewife in the wider world.]
Rogers, Helen
""The good are not always powerful, nor the powerful always
good": The politics of women's needlework in mid-Victorian London.” Victorian Studies 40.4 (1997):
589-623. Humanities Module. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Roy, Abhik "Images of
domesticity and motherhood in Indian television commericials: A critical
study.” Journal of Popular
Culture 32.3 (1998): 117-134. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los
Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Sanchez, Laura "Gender,
labor allocations, and the psychology of entitlement within the home.” Social Forces 73.2 (1994): 533.
Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Shelton, Beth Anne, John,
Daphne "The division of household labor.” Annual Review of Sociology 22.(1996): 299-322.
ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Simonton, Deborah. 1998. A History of
European Women's Work: 1700 To the Present. London; New York: Routledge.
Sommestad, Lena & Sally
McMurry "Farm daughters and industrialization: A comparative analysis of
dairying in New York and Sweden, 1860- 1920.” Journal of Women's History 10.2 (1998): 137-164.
Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Stanley, Adam C
"Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine Frederick and the Rise of Household
Efficiency.” Rev. of:
title_of_work_reviewed_in_italics, clarifying_information. History 31.4
(2003): 144-145. Humanities Module. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Stanley, Autumn. 1993. Mothers and
Daughters of Invention: Notes for A Revised History of Technology.
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.
Strasser, Susan (ed.). 1982. Never Done:
A History of American Housework. New York: Pantheon Books.
Tasca, Luisa "The
"Average Housewife" In Post-World War II Italy.” Journal of Women's History 16.2
(2004): 92-115,211. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Torrens, Kathleen M
"Fashion as argument: Nineteenth-century dress reform.” Argumentation and Advocacy 2
36.2 (1999): 77-87. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Trescott, Martha Moore (ed.). 1979. Dynamos
and Virgins Revisited: Women and Technological Change In History: An Anthology.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
van Herk, Aritha
"Invisibled laundry.” Signs
27.3 (2002): 893-900. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Waldron, FlorenceMae
"The Battle over Female (In)Dependence: Women in New England Quebecois
Migrant Communities, 1870-1930.” Frontiers
26.2 (2005): 158-205,239. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles,
CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Walsh, Judith E "What
women learned when men gave them advice: Rewriting patriarchy in
late-nineteenth-century Bengal.” The
Journal of Asian Studies 56.3 (1997): 641-677. ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest.
USC, Los Angeles, CA. <http://www.proquest.com/>
Weiner, Lynn Y
"Reconstructing motherhood: The La Leche League in postwar America.” The Journal of American History
80.4 (1994): 1357. Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Wolcott, Victoria W
""Bible, bath and broom": Nannie Helen Burrough's National
Training School and African-American Racial Uplift.” Journal of Women's History 9.1 (1997): 88-110.
Research Library Core. ProQuest. USC, Los Angeles, CA.
<http://www.proquest.com/>
Zlotnick, Susan. 1998. Women, Writing,
and the Industrial Revolution. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press.
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