Domesticity And Dirt

Examining the cultual norms of women after Suffrage to define labor based on color.

Use of historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the development of paid care work in the twentieth-century including health care, education and child care, and social services.

This book views domesticity through multiple frames and surveys the rhetoric and practices of domestication in contemporary cultures. It also examines the consequences and costs of homemaking in various geographic and textual locations.