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<p>In the era after Suffrage, white middle-class housewives abandoned moves toward paid work for themselves, embraced domestic life, and felt entitled to servants. In <i>Domesticity and Dirt</i>, Phyllis Palmer examines the cultural norms that led such women to take on the ornamental and emotional elements of the job while relegating the hard physical work and demeaning service tasks to servants—mainly women of color. Using novels, films, magazine articles, home economics texts, and government-f
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- Author
- Phyllis M Palmer
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781439905548
- Category
- relationships
- Subjects
- Science, History, Management
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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