The essential daughter
changing expectations for girls at home, 1797 to the present
by Collins, Mary
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"Few American parents expect their children to play an important role on the home front. The average daughter does fewer than ten hours of housework a week; sons do only two. What are the consequences of this dramatic cultural shilt? The portraits of 14 girls aged 6 to 14, when their ideas of duty and self remained in flux, are used as a starting point for discussion on how to bring daughters and their brothers back into the flow of American home life.
The author explores how Americans might make girls feel essential on the home front without denying them the right of self-definition." "Collins posits that nothing we can give our children in the public sphere can offset the loss. Collins concludes that Americans must rebuild a domestic culture that moves beyond the damaging sex-based division of labor so common in the past."--BOOK JACKET.
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Sex role, Biography, Family relationships, History, Daughters, Women, Rôle selon le sexe, Filles, Histoire, Femmes, Famille, Women, united states, historyPlaces
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The essential daughter: changing expectations for girls at home, 1797 to the present
2003, Praeger
in English
0275978362 9780275978365
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