Love and Toil by Ellen Ross
This study of working-class mothers in London before World War I stresses the distinctiveness of their experiences from those of other classes, and demonstrates the manner in which mothers and their domestic choices were essential to the survival and cultural perpetuation of the working class.
In an insightful and sensitive way, Ellen Ross has drawn together the various strands in this complex history of motherhood and produced a masterpiece which promises to be of long-term importanceBeautifully composed and neatly balanced between poignant passages and funny ones, Ross has composed a book which is easy to read. * Labour History Review *
finely researched...Ross's lively presentation of evidence unobtrusively guides readers towards her arguments and makes Love and Toil a book to savor for the specialist and non-specialist alike...marks offers fascinating and original comparisons between Jews and their Irish Catholic neighbors which provide an exemparly model for social and medical historians studying multi-ethnic communities.
Women's experience of bearing children and bringing them up, and the importance of motherhood to women's identity, now dominate research agendas on both sides of the Atlantic. It is Ross' great achievement to place that role within a specific historical context... Her account of the daily struggle for existence and the thousand-and-one tasks required to put food on the table for husbands and children is truly impressive. * English Historical Review *
Women's experience of bearing children and bringing them up, and the importance of motherhood to women's identity, now dominate research agendas on both sides of the Atlantic. It is Ross's great achievement to place that role within a specific historical context, to show what the Victorians thought about the prescriptive mother - her duties and obligations ... Hers is an ... original and very precise study ... Model Mothers is a richly documented study which draws extensively upon personal interviews and a wide range of medical, charitable and official records ... suggestive and rewarding study ... a significant advance on our understanding of our families and ourselves. * David Englander, The Open University, EHR Nov. 96 *
finely researched...Ross's lively presentation of evidence unobtrusively guides readers towards her arguments and makes Love and Toil a book to savor for the specialist and non-specialist alike...marks offers fascinating and original comparisons between Jews and their Irish Catholic neighbors which provide an exemparly model for social and medical historians studying multi-ethnic communities.
Women's experience of bearing children and bringing them up, and the importance of motherhood to women's identity, now dominate research agendas on both sides of the Atlantic. It is Ross' great achievement to place that role within a specific historical context... Her account of the daily struggle for existence and the thousand-and-one tasks required to put food on the table for husbands and children is truly impressive. * English Historical Review *
Women's experience of bearing children and bringing them up, and the importance of motherhood to women's identity, now dominate research agendas on both sides of the Atlantic. It is Ross's great achievement to place that role within a specific historical context, to show what the Victorians thought about the prescriptive mother - her duties and obligations ... Hers is an ... original and very precise study ... Model Mothers is a richly documented study which draws extensively upon personal interviews and a wide range of medical, charitable and official records ... suggestive and rewarding study ... a significant advance on our understanding of our families and ourselves. * David Englander, The Open University, EHR Nov. 96 *
Ellen Ross is Professor of Women's Studies at Ramapo College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195083217 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195083210 |
| Title | Love and Toil |
| Author | Ellen Ross |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1994-03-17 |
| Number of pages | 326 |
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