Voices of American homemakers, 1982-1986.

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Voices of American homemakers, 1982-1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/388060393

The collection consists of 200 oral histories by women throughout the United States. Included are approximately 250 standard cassette tapes, bound copies of the transcripts, a social history of American homemakers and a set of scholarly papers delivered at a 1983 symposium.

2.0 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7407977

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National Extension Homemakers Council (U.S.)

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In 1983, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a major grant to the National Extension Homemakers Council (NEHC) for a three-year nationwide project to collect, process, and disseminate representative oral histories from rural homemakers throughout the country. The council is a national nonprofit educational organization made up of 30,000 organized groups (or clubs) in forty-four states and two territories, with a membership of approximately 500,000. It is one of the lar...