What makes this book different is its temporal context... I became fascinated by the description of a woman's lifeworld within a 'typical' middle-class, American home of only 100 years ago... The Home: Its Work and Influence can be considered a classic in gender studies. -- Valerie Wright-St. Clair, Auckland University of technology Journal Of Occupational Studies, Nov. 2003, Vol. 10, No. 3