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by Margaret Marsh. 232 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Margaret Marsh

Publisher:

   Rutgers University Press

Place of Publication:

  New Brunswick, NJ  

Publication Year:

  1990
Subjects:   Suburban Life--United States--History, Women--United States--Social Conditions
Table of contents
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION xi
PROLOGUE: Homes of the Virtuous 1
PART ONE FAMILY AND SUBURB IN VICTORIAN AMERICA
CHAPTER ONE Moulding the Moral Nature 21
CHAPTER TWO The Minutiae of Domestic Life 41
PART TWO PROGRESSIVE SUBURBANITES
CHAPTER THREE Homemakers Male and Female 67
CHAPTER FOUR Breathing the Air of Domesticity 90
PART THREE SUBURBAN PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION
CHAPTER FIVE A Version of America 129
CHAPTER SIX The Suburban City Beautiful 165
EPILOGUE: The Mystique of Fulfillment 182
NOTES 191
INDEX 223
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