The American Woman's HomeThe American Womans Home, originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth centurys most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the eras most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct womens acquisition and use of a dizzying variety of new household consumer goods available in the postCivil War economic boom. It updates Catharine Beechers influential Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) and incorporates domestic writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in The Atlantic in the 1860s. Today, the book can be likened to an anthology of household hints, with articles on cooking, decorating, housekeeping, child-rearing, hygiene, gardening, etiquette, and home amusements. The American Womans Home, almost a bible on domestic topics for Victorian women, illuminates womens roles a century and a half ago and can be used for comparison with modern theories on the role of women in the home and in society. Illustrated with the original engravings, this completely new edition offers a lively introduction by Nicole Tonkovich and notes linking the text to important historical, social, and cultural events of the late nineteenth century |
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... bread , happy children eagerly pitching in to plant little gardens and assist in homely chores , all presided over ... bread is no longer a disagreeable , hot , and messy weekly task , but a demonstration of ele- vated social class ...
... bread . All these goods could now be bought . Professionally trained physicians now offered medical care , traditionally understood to be a mother's duty . Thus " The Care of Health " declares that a woman need not " undertake the ...
... bread . Indeed , such prejudices riddle the book . In its first chapter , The American Woman's Home warns that " the family state " is endangered by the celibacy endorsed by Roman Catholicism , while convent and monastic education ...
... bread . An anecdote recounted by Catharine recalling the earliest days of the sisters ' collaboration will serve here as a final example of how the Beecher sisters ' success depended upon erased domestic labor . Catharine tells of ...
... Bread - What it should be , how to spoil and how to make it - Different modes of aeration - Baking - Evils of hot bread . - Butter - Contrast between the butter of America and of European countries - How to make good butter . - Meat ...
Contents
VII | 23 |
VIII | 27 |
IX | 42 |
X | 53 |
XI | 58 |
XII | 71 |
XIII | 85 |
XIV | 91 |
XXVI | 197 |
XXVII | 205 |
XXVIII | 214 |
XXIX | 225 |
XXX | 228 |
XXXI | 247 |
XXXII | 256 |
XXXIII | 260 |
XV | 95 |
XVI | 108 |
XVII | 116 |
XVIII | 122 |
XIX | 129 |
XX | 146 |
XXI | 151 |
XXII | 162 |
XXIII | 167 |
XXIV | 176 |
XXV | 185 |
XXXIV | 265 |
XXXV | 270 |
XXXVI | 278 |
XXXVII | 282 |
XXXVIII | 286 |
XXXIX | 289 |
XL | 296 |
XLI | 308 |
XLII | 318 |
XLIII | 333 |