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Between Women Judith Rollins

Between Women By Judith Rollins

Between Women by Judith Rollins


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A study of the relationship between women employers and employees. It provides an overview of domestic service in the Western tradition, a history of servitude in the South and northeastern United States, with an attention to a few non-Western locales.

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Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers by Judith Rollins

A study of the unique relationship between women employers and employees

Between Women Reviews

This work meticulously examines the salient past and contemporary problems of the employer-household worker relationship...perceptive study. --Signs Rollins approaches her topic both as a sociologist and as a subject... Her insights into the unique relationship between women employers and employees are quite striking... Rollins includes both a history of domestic work and a sociological interpretation of the experience in this contemporary study of one of the world's oldest professions. An important and meaningful work, especially for students of labor, women's studies, and ethnic studies--all levels. --Choice [T]his book is rich and alive with history and contemporary voices. Rollins has done a tremendous job of pulling together the past and present...and documenting her work with her own experience. --The Women's Review of Books

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The History of Domestic Service 2. The Work 3. The Women 4. Deference and Maternalism 5. Invisibility, Consciousness of the Other, Ressentiment Notes Index

Additional information

CIN0877224919G
9780877224914
0877224919
Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers by Judith Rollins
Used - Good
Paperback
Temple University Press,U.S.
19870210
240
N/A
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