Legislative Documents

Legislative Documents

Author: Iowa

Publisher:

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 1218

ISBN-13:

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Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.


The House of Paper

The House of Paper

Author: Carlos María Domínguez

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780151011476

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Immersed in a volume of poetry, Bluma Lennon is hit by a car while crossing the street. Her successor in Cambridge's English department travels to Buenos Aires to track down the source of a novel encrusted in cement that was sent to the late Bluma in this tale--part mystery, part social comedy, and part examination of bibliomania.


"Just a Housewife"

Author: Glenna Matthews

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1987-10-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0199728909

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Housewives constitute a large section of the population, yet they have received very little attention, let alone respect. Glenna Matthews, who herself spent many years as "just a housewife" before becoming a scholar of American history, sets out to redress this imbalance. While the male world of work has always received the most respect, Matthews maintains that widespread reverence for the home prevailed in the nineteenth century. The early stages of industrialization made possible a strong tradition of cooking, baking, and sewing that gave women great satisfaction and a place in the world. Viewed as the center of republican virtue, the home also played an important religious role. Examining novels, letters, popular magazines, and cookbooks, Matthews seeks to depict what women had and what they have lost in modern times. She argues that the culture of professionalism in the late nineteenth century and the culture of consumption that came to fruition in the 1920s combined to kill off the "cult of domesticity." This important, challenging book sheds new light on a central aspect of human experience: the essential task of providing a society's nurture and daily maintenance.


Bulletin

Bulletin

Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library

Publisher:

Published: 1896

Total Pages: 774

ISBN-13:

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