Party Lines, Pumps and Privies (Memories of Hoosier Homemakers, No. 2) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253208009 ISBN 13: 9780253208002

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Indiana University Press is pleased to be able to offer the first two titles in the Oral History Project, "Memories of Hoosier Homemakers", directed by Eleanor Arnold. These books retrieve and celebrate the lives of ordinary homemakers. "The basic tenet of this project", according to Mrs. Arnold, has been to prove, both to the world and to the women themselves, that their lives have value, dignity, and worth. "Party Lines, Pumps and Privies" - edited by Eleanor Arnold. Electricity and the telephone transformed rural life. These and other inventions and their impact are "remembered" in this volume. "Memories of Hoosier Homemakers", Eleanor Arnold, Editor and Project Director.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book is the third in the series, Memories of Hoosier Homemakers, which arises from an ongoing oral history project. This book deals with two of the subjects discussed in the collected interviews. The first is changes in transportation, as observed by the narrators, and the second is the impact of world events on the lives and values of the family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0253208009
• ISBN 13: 9780253208002
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Arnold Eleanor