Cradle of the Middle Class
The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790–1865

Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles.

Mary P. Ryan (Author)

9780521274036, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 November 1983

336 pages
23 x 15.4 x 1.9 cm, 0.517 kg

Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological transformation of the American family from 1780-1865. Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles.

Preface
Introduction: locating domesticity
1. Family, community, and the frontier generation, 1790–1820
2. Family in transition: the revival cycle, 1813–1838
3. The era of association: between family and society, 1825–1845
4. Privacy and the making of the self-made man: family strategies of the middle class at midcentury
5. A sphere is not a home: woman's larger place in the city at midcentury
Conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Sources and select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]