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Author:
Des Jardins, Julie.
Title:
Lillian Gilbreth : redefining domesticity / Julie Des Jardins ; foreword by Carol Berkin.
Publisher:
Westview Press,
Copyright Date:
c2013
Description:
xvi, 176 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Gilbreth, Lillian Moller,--1878-1972.
Women--United States--Biography.
Work and family--United States--History.
Women industrial engineers--United States--Biography.
Families--United States--Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-166) and index.
Summary:
An accessible and engaging introduction to the life of Lillian Gilbreth. At a time when women were fixtures in the home and rarely accepted in many professions, Gilbreth excelled in both spheres, at one point winning mother and engineer of the year. She worked to establish the discipline of industrial psychology, was an engineer of domestic management and home economics, and was a mother of twelve children, the story of which was made famous by the book and then movie "Cheaper by the Dozen"
Series:
Lives of American women.
ISBN:
0813347637
9780813347639
0813347645 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813347646 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)786002503
LCCN:
2012012514
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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