From marriage to the market [electronic resource] : the transformation of women's lives and work / Susan Thistle.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.Description: xiv, 296 p. : illISBN:- 0520245903 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520246462 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 331.40973/09045 22
- HD6095 .T49 2006eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-286) and index.
A world turned inside out -- Support for women's domestic economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The breakdown of women's domestic economy after World War II -- Economic difficulties and a contradictory alliance -- The formation of a female underclass -- The "new economy" and the transformation of women's work -- How and why mothers have been shortchanged -- New possibilities and old inequalities.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.