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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... mind , the care of the human body in infancy and sickness , and the conservation of the family state . " Obsessed with " educating [ the ] country by means of its women , " 10 Beecher used the A.W.E.A. to place women as teach- ers and ...
... mind . - Pages 91-94 . IX . HEALTHFUL FOOD . Apportionment of elements in food : carbon , nitrogen , phosphorus , calcium , iron , silicon , etc. - Large proportion of water in the human body - Dr . Holmes on the interchange of death ...
... MIND . Intimate connection between the body and mind - Brain excited by improper stim- ulants taken into the stomach - Mental faculties then affected - Causes of mental disease - Want of oxygenized blood - Fresh air absolutely necessary ...
... mind and body - Example of Christ - No amusements to be intro- duced that will tempt the weak or over - excite the young - Puritan customs - Work followed by play - Dramatic exercises , dancing , and festivity wholesomely enjoyed- The ...
... mind - Lack of compe- tent nurses - Failings of nurses - Sensitiveness of the sick- " Sisters of Charity , " the reason why they are such excellent nurses - Illness in the family a providential opportunity of training children to love ...
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 |