From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice

Posted On: December 26, 2009 – 1:06 pm
From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice

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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 …
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  1. One Response to “From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice”

  2. By Ulf on Dec 26, 2009 | Reply

    This review is from: From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice (Paperback)

    From Catharine Beecher To Martha Stewart: A Cultural History Of Domestic Advice by historian Sara A. Leavitt is a thoughtful and informative overview of the history of domestic advice, gleaned from research into hundreds of manuals written throughout the past 150 years. Cultural themes, the broad appeal of domestic advice across the decades in spite of radical changes in women’s rights and roles in America, and the connection between women’s homes, and the world outsides the home, mark From Catharine Beecher To Martha Stewart as a fascinating, accessible, insightful, scholarly treatise. Especially recommended for personal and Women’s Studies supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections, From Catharine Beecher To Martha Stewart is also available in hardcover (0807827029).

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