This twentieth anniversary edition of Nancy F. Cott's acclaimed study includes a new preface in which Cott assesses her own and other historians' development of the concept of domesticity from the 1970s to the 1990s.
This twentieth anniversary edition of Nancy F. Cott's acclaimed study includes a new preface in which Cott assesses her own and other historians' development of the concept of domesticity from the 1970s to the 1990s.
AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments for the Second EditionPreface to the Second EditionList of AbbreviationsIntroduction11Work192Domesticity633Education1014Religion1265Sisterhood160Conclusion: On "Woman's Sphere" and Feminism197List of Women's Documents Consulted207List of Ministers' Sermons Consulted215Index221