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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... caused by the Civil War , she offered the " comfort of home things . " These comfortable possessions became even more ubiquitous after the war ended , as retooled munitions fac- tories in the victorious North spewed forth a plethora of ...
... caused by the War . It opened to all educated women a chance to practice domesticity — with a difference.19 They would be econom- ically self - sufficient , retaining legal control of their own money and property ; if they did decide to ...
... caused by tight corseting to " the horrible torments inflicted by savage Indians or cruel inquisitors on their victims . " Such a simile demarcates a community of white , civilized , Protestant women with the money to pur- chase and ...
... cause a contemporary reader to judge The American Woman's Home to be antique , out- dated , and not worth an attentive reading . How might one best approach this book , then , with its overt racism and blindness to social class , its ...
... WHOSE HANDS REST THE REAL DESTINIES OF THE REPUBLIC , AS MOULDED BY THE EARLY TRAINING AND PRESERVED AMID THE MATURER INFLUENCES OF HOME , THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED . TABLE OF CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . THE chief cause of.
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 |