Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin, 1850-1940

By Emily K. Abel

Book Overview

The image of the famale caregiver holding a midnight vigil at the bedside of a sick relative is so firmly rooted in our collective imagination w might assume that such caregiving woul dhave attracted the scrutiny of numerous historians. As Emily Abel demonstrates in this study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety years, this has hardly been the case.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674003144
• ISBN13: 9780674003149
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"