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Author Leavitt, Sarah.

Title From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart : a cultural history of domestic advice / by Sarah A. Leavitt.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.
Contents ch. 1. Going to housekeeping : creating a frugal and honest home -- ch. 2. 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.
Summary 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Home economics -- History.
Home economics.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Other Form: Print version: Leavitt, Sarah Abigail. From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002 0807827029 (DLC) 2001054202 (OCoLC)48222669
ISBN 0807860387 (electronic book)
9780807860380 (electronic book)
0807827029 (alkaline paper)
9780807827024 (alkaline paper)
0807853712 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807853719 (paperback ; alkaline paper)