More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave

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 hous…

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