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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... domestic advice crowd bookstore shelves . Martha Stewart counsels her followers not only about cooking , sewing , gar- dening , and general " homekeeping , " but on choosing and caring for pets , selecting music , planning weddings ...
... domestic writers were sisters , Catharine Beecher , a pioneer of women's education , and her more famous sib- ling , Harriet Beecher Stowe , author of Uncle Tom's Cabin . In i869 , just four years after the Civil War ended , these two ...
... domestic goddess clad in a snowy white apron . At the same time , they acknowledged that " family labor is poorly done , poorly paid , and regarded as menial and disgraceful . " The authors began their book by announcing their intent to ...
... domestic ideals from their less - than - glamorous execution . " The Christian Family " : Who wrote The American Woman's Home ? The American Woman's Home offered its readers the advice of two of the nation's most public housekeepers ...
... domestic encyclopedia that propounded a philosophically and scientifically based system of household management and practice . Its purpose was to " place domestic economy on an equality with other sciences in female schools . " The book ...
Contents
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XXV | 185 |
XXXIV | 265 |
XXXV | 270 |
XXXVI | 278 |
XXXVII | 282 |
XXXVIII | 286 |
XXXIX | 289 |
XL | 296 |
XLI | 308 |
XLII | 318 |
XLIII | 333 |