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From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart : a cultural history of domestic advice /
This study demonstrates that today's domestic advice writers -women such as Martha Stewart, Cheryl Mendelson and B. Smith - are part of a long tradition. Sarah A. Leavitt crafts a cultural history and genealogy of domestic advice, based on her readings of manuals spanning 150 years of history.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Going to housekeeping : creating a frugal and honest home
- ch. 2. The rise of the domiologist : science in the home
- ch. 3. Americanization, model homes, and lace curtains
- ch. 4. Modernism : no junk! is the cry of the new interior
- ch. 5. Color is running riot : character, color, and children
- ch. 6. Our own North American Indians : romancing the past
- ch. 7. Togetherness and the open-space plan.