Give Us Bread But Give Us Roses - Working Women s Consciousness in United States, 1890 to First World

Summary

Rooted in the printed sources of the period, this book reconstructs the attitudes of a pioneer generation of young women to the conflicts brought about by their new experience of employment outside their homes, and to changes in work and family relationships. In the 1890s and after the still prevalent Victorian conception of respectable womanhood excluded wage-earning women. Yet working-class women themselves did not acquiesce in this judgement, and Eisenstein’s exploration of Victorian ideas about women and work – using the contemporary middle-class literature of advice and prescription to this new workforce – makes a historical study which is a classic of its kind.
The book was originally published in 1983.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Eisenstein, Eisenstein Sarah
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2014
• EAN: 9780415752510
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75251-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Sociology, HISTORY / General, REFERENCE / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General