Glenna Matthews

Autor/a de "Just a Housewife": The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America

5+ obres 156 Membres 2 Ressenyes

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Glenna Matthews is a historian who has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University

Obres de Glenna Matthews

The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970 (1992) 30 exemplars

The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California (2012) 17 exemplars

Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century (2002) 9 exemplars

American Women's History: A Student Companion (Student Companions to American History) (2000) 7 exemplars

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America's Working Women: A Documentary History 1600 to the Present (1976) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 138 exemplars

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Altres noms: Matthews, Glenna Christine
Data de naixement: 1938
Gènere: female
Nacionalitat: USA
País (per posar en el mapa): USA
Lloc de naixement: Los Angeles, California, USA
Educació: San Jose State University (BA)
Stanford University (MA, PhD)
Professions: History professor, Oklahoma State University
Organitzacions: American History Association
Organization of American Historians

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"Just a housewife" : the rise and fall of do… de Glenna Matthews

During the 19th century there was such reverence for the home that housewifes were able to maintain significant self respect. They saw themselves as guardians of moral and ethical values often spurned in the world of business. By the 20th century, less esteem was placed on the role of homemaker and women's views of themselves reflected that.

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MWMLibrary | Jan 14, 2022 |

The Golden State in the Civil War : Thomas Starr… de Glenna Matthews

Being an awkward attempt to elucidate California's Civil War years through the prism of small-to-medium Unitarian celebrity King. The book is well-researched and adequately written, but King's presence mandates digressions into uninteresting tangents such as the history of Unitarianism and Transcendentalism in New England, fundraising for military charity the U.S. Sanitary Commission, and sightseeing in the Yosemite country, to the point that King becomes a very unwelcome guest. Since the author declines any opportunities to tell a military story, brushing off the CSA expedition to conquer the state in a few paragraphs, that leaves her sections on ethnic and party politics in the state as the main point of interest in the book.… (més)

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