A Very Short Introduction by Ware Susan

Author:Ware, Susan [Ware, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780199328338
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-11-24T21:00:00+00:00

Laundry was women’s most onerous chore, an all-day affair (usually on Mondays) for which there was no remotely equivalent task for men. Since only one out of ten farms had electricity as late as the 1930s, hundreds of gallons of water had to be pumped by hand and then hauled to the house. The farm wife then heated the water on a woodstove that required constant tending, washed the clothes (often with harsh lye, since soap was too expensive), rinsed them, and wrung them out to dry. Then came another all-day task of ironing, which involved six- to seven-pound wedges of metal that had to be individually heated over a fire; a single shirt could take several irons. Southwest Texas farm women called them “sad irons.”

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