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a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)

More Work For Mother rules for disappearing to shed surprising light onIn this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to housework as did their colonial sisters. In lively and provocative prose, Cowan explains how the modern convenienceswashing machines, white flour, vacuums, commercial cottonseemed at first to offer working class women middle class standards of comfort. Over