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- Title
“Woman's Place is in the Tea Room”: White Middle-Class American Women as Entrepreneurs and Customers.
- Authors
Alexander, Eleanor
- Abstract
The article focuses on the role of tea room in bringing American elite and middle-class women into the business world in the 19th century. Owners said that if a woman like housekeeping but want bigger money returns and more human contact, it is logical that a tea room should be a good business and that managing a modern tea room and managing a large home means are alike. It also cites various tea rooms with popular a la carte menus, including The Vanity Fair Tea Room in Los Angeles, California with their distinctive chicken salad, and Aunt Polly's in New York City with its chocolate cake topped with maple icing. It states that women remain the majority owners, managers, and tea room patrons in the 1920s, although large hotels preferred male supervisors.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WOMEN-owned business enterprises; TEAROOMS; RESTAURANT management; BUSINESSWOMEN; A la carte menus; MIDDLE class women; ELITE (Social sciences); HOUSEKEEPING; RESTAURANTS; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Journal of American Culture, 2009, Vol 32, Issue 2, p126
- ISSN
1542-7331
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1542-734X.2009.00703.x