Voices of American HomemakersEleanor Arnold Indiana University Press, 1993 - 295 Seiten With voices of homemakers from all over the United States, excerpts from their taped interviews, this work tells of their experiences as children, wives, and mothers. They reminisce about life as it used to be on the farm and in small towns, with tales of one-room schools, sod houses, long underwear, childbirth at home, outside privies, and more. |
Inhalt
FOREWORD | 1 |
THE HOMEMAKER AND HER WORK | 113 |
THE HOMEMAKER AND HER ORGANIZATION | 197 |
THE HOMEMAKER AND HERSELF | 259 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 289 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
agent Alabama Anna Sorensen Arkansas baby baked Billie Jones boys bread brought called Carol Lawrence child chores Christmas church clean clothes cook crepe de Chine Dorothy dress electricity everything Extension club Extension Homemakers farm father Florence Reed girls go to school Hampshire Hawaii heat high school Home Demonstration Homemaker club Homemakers Council horse husband Indiana iron Jane Morgan Kansas kids ladies laughs lesson lived lunch Margaret Lien married Mary meeting Mexico milk Minnie Ness morning mother Nebraska neighbors never nice night North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Opal Cypert organization picked play pressure cookers quilt remember sewing started stay stove talk taught tell things thought told took walk wanted wash week West Virginia wintertime women wonderful wood
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