August 21, 2002

For Her Own Good, Ehrenreich and English

I just remembered that I have a copy of this, which is a 1978 history of professional advice to & about women. Their introduction compares the rationalist soution to the Women Question (let women and men do the same work) to the romantic one (believe that women and their work are special and outside rational cost/benefit analysis).

They also have an entire chapter on "Microbes and the Manufacture of Housework". Lillian Gilbreth, however, doesn't appear in the index. So wrote clew in History.

And thus wrote others:
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