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The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave
The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave
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74 minutes
Released:
Jan 9, 2023
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Historian Ruth Schwartz Cowan talks about her book, More Work for Mother, with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The book examines the history of how Americans industrialized their homes over the past two hundred years and how supposedly labor-saving technologies led women to do increased housework. Cowan also reflects on what it was like to work as a professor as a woman and mother in the 1970s and how families have changed their relationship to technology and housework in the nearly forty years since the book was published.
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Released:
Jan 9, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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