Shout out to Cbpotts2 and everyone else

Was talking to a professor today about women's history et al and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich came up in conversation. Her work is on women's history, and is very meaty. I've read 2 of her four books:

• A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812
  
• Good wives : image and reality in the lives of women in northern New England, 1650-1750
  
• Yards and gates : gender in Harvard and Radcliffe history
  
• The age of homespun : objects and stories in the creation of an American myth
  

And am going to read the forth soon.
I think she would be very useful in a discussion of the construct of housework.
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Another fascinating book is Never done : a history of American housework by Susan Strasser.

Addendum: 2 fascinating titles

That I stumbled across in the stacks:
Transcendental Wife: The Life of Abigail May Alcott
The Ambiguous Iriquois Empire

Library Quote of the Day

Nobody but library people will truly understand this, but . . .

Librarianship has made the purchasing of information objtects into a fine, complex art form-- as well as a sport, with perhaps consortium agreements for electronic resources as the major league of that sport.
-- Tom Peters, "Wikipedia in a New Yorker Minute," Smart Libraries, September 2006.

Sometimes, though I wonder if I'm working for the Cubs?