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From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice
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From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. By Sarah A. Leavitt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 250, acknowledgments, introduction, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper)
A folklore journal is an perhaps an odd venue for a review of a text studying the cultural history of domestic advice in America, but Sarah A. Leavitt's work provides background in women's culture that is useful for scholars in many disciplines-women's studies, American studies, history, sociology, and folklore among them. Leavitt's book-what she calls "a genealogy of domestic advice" (4)-is a …
