The text explains how various technologies have affected the ways in which Americans work, govern, cook, transport, communicate, maintain their health, and reproduce.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan Volgorde van de boeken
Ruth Schwartz Cowan is een historicus gespecialiseerd in de wetenschap, technologie en geneeskunde. Haar academische werk duikt in de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen deze disciplines en hun historische ontwikkeling. Ze benadert haar onderwerpen met een rigoureuze analytische blik, met als doel de maatschappelijke krachten en technologische vooruitgang te belichten die ons begrip van gezondheid en wetenschappelijke vooruitgang hebben gevormd.
- 1997
- 1985
More Work For Mother
- 288bladzijden
- 11 uur lezen
In 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 conveniences—washing machines, white flour, vacuums, commercial cotton—seemed at first to offer working-class women middle-class standards of comfort. Over time, however, it became clear that these gadgets and gizmos mainly replaced work previously conducted by men, children, and servants. Instead of living lives of leisure, middle-class women found themselves struggling to keep up with ever higher standards of cleanliness.
