Author: Sarah A. Leavitt
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860387
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Today's domestic-advice writers--women such as Martha Stewart, Cheryl Mendelson, and B. Smith--are part of a long tradition, notes Sarah Leavitt. Their success rests on a legacy of literature that has focused on the home as an expression of ideals. Here, Leavitt crafts a fascinating genealogy of domestic advice, based on her readings of hundreds of manuals spanning 150 years of history. Over the years, domestic advisors have educated women about everything from modernism and morality to sanitation and design. Their writings helped create the idealized vision of home held by so many Americans, Leavitt says. Investigating cultural themes in domestic advice written since the mid-nineteenth century, she demonstrates that these works, which found meaning in kitchen counters, parlor rugs, and bric-a-brac, have held the interest of readers despite vast changes in women's roles and opportunities. Domestic-advice manuals have always been the stuff of fantasy, argues Leavitt, demonstrating cultural ideals rather than cultural realities. But these rich sources reveal how women understood the connection between their homes and the larger world. At its most fundamental level, the true domestic fantasy was that women held the power to reform their society through first reforming their homes.
Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
Publisher:
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Category : Cooking, American
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Author: Kathryn Kish Sklar
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393008128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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“A thoughtful, ingenious, speculative book, a pleasure to read and to reread. No one interested in the history of women and the family, and in Victorian civilization as a whole, can afford to miss it.” —Journal of American History
Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
Publisher:
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Although Beecher takes issue with the call for women's active involvement in the abolition movement, her discussion reveals the inter-relationship between 19th century abolitionism and 19th century feminism.
Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
Publisher:
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Author: Catharine E. Beecher
Publisher: Pinnacle Press
ISBN: 9781374900424
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Barbara A. White
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300127634
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 413
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A “rich, varied, sensitive” biography of three nineteenth-century women: an educator, an early feminist, and the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Publishers Weekly). Daughters of the famous evangelist Lyman Beecher, Catherine, Harriet, and Isabella could not follow their father and seven brothers into the ministry. Nonetheless, they carved out path-breaking careers for themselves. Catharine Beecher founded the Hartford Female Seminary and devoted her life to improving women’s education. Harriet Beecher Stowe became world famous as the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. And Isabella Beecher Hooker was an outspoken advocate for women’s rights. This engrossing book is a joint biography of the sisters, whose lives spanned the full course of the nineteenth century. The life of Isabella Beecher—who has never been the subject of a biography—is examined in particular detail here, as Barbara White draws on little used sources to explore Isabella’s political development and her interactions with her sisters and with prominent people of the time—from Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Mark Twain.
Author: Catharine Esther BEECHER (and STOWE (Harriet Elizabeth Beecher))
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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