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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... labor actions : Janitors and hotel workers strike for increased wages in California ; the International Day of Domestic Workers enjoys enthusiastic worldwide participation . These dissatisfied domestic workers share a common complaint ...
... labor is poorly done , poorly paid , and regarded as menial and disgraceful . " The authors began their book by announcing their intent to make domestic work respectable — not by demand- ing that housewives be paid for their labor , but ...
... labor of housekeeping , but also as means by which fragmented , mobile , dis- persed , and reconfigured families might be reunited . Their common possessions and their common household practices would cement their bonds and restore a ...
... nations the leisured wealthy lie abed while the workers who support them toil from daybreak , in a democratic society , everyone arises and begins their com- mon labor at the same time . This democratic practice xxii Introduction.
Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe Nicole Tonkovich. mon labor at the same time . This democratic practice also follows the Chris- tian injunction to " do unto others , " and allows schools and businesses to oper- ate on a ...
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 |