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... is to discover in domestic economy a way of thinking about nature as something in which we live and, equally important, that lives in us. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Catharine E. Beecher home economics human ecology environmentalism ecofeminism...

... little relation to women’s reality in domestic contexts (61, 58). Thus, Beecher advocated for the applied science curriculum we now know as home economics, as a method of professionalizing homemak- ing...

... realms. Her scope for examining the domestic is wide, including fashion practices among San Antonio chili vendors, depictions of home spaces and decor in Jovita González’s and Cleofas Jaramillo’s mid- twentieth-century fiction, cultural and governmental constructions of cook- ing and home economics...

... gardens and flowers and the adoption of sanitary conditions, wholesome preparation of foods and other home economics. As fall approaches and the crops are laid by, the tenants are furnished with teams and wagons, and huge piles of wood are prepared for winter fuel. (Smith 1923 : 71) Contrary...

... “manifest domesticity”: a revision of “the nation as home” for the postwar era, “inextricable from the political, economic, and cultural movements of empire.”33 Suburban nation building and suburban domesticity enact an ongoing process of inclusion and exclusion, an expansion and con- traction...

... migration.50 As Goldman explores the plight of Central American refugees who leave the economic disparity of their home countries only to encounter similar conditions in the North, the stranded ship comes to represent...

... with editors, printers, and publicists, and lined up reviews in leading journals prior to publication” (NGC, 84). Wolff simply omits Codman altogether, describing Decoration as “Whar- ton’s first real book” (A Feast of Words, 77). 13 On the home economics movement, see Sarah A. Leavitt...

... produce, to sustain these very workers. 12 It is in this sense that the film, released in 2020, presents a retrospective account of early neoliberalism in the United States through the narrative of Jacob’s aspirational economic ascension, while Severance imagines the end of neoliberalism through...

...Meghan M. Wadle Abstract This essay contextualizes Herman Melville’s “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” alongside antebellum portrayals of the female wage earner. Melville’s decision to measure the costs of economic change by sexualizing female wage earners typifies antebellum...

... culture. Cassandra, finally, abjures most of the atmospheres with which she experimented. Veronica marries Ben and moves into a new house at Surrey; Locke, over Cassandra’s objections, marries Alice and moves to Rosville (in keeping with economic destiny). Cassandra remains in her childhood home...

... of immiseration. The economic crisis triggered by the pandemic intensified this eviction epidemic, further illuminating the cruelty of a privatized housing system that prevents tenants from making homes of their housing, extracting as much profit from one lessee before moving on to the next. Both during...

... posits the border as the central transformative space between two imbricated economic and cultural circuits. Despite strict enforcement of movement along the US-Mexico border, both people and products routinely cross. Legal laborers make daily crossings from their homes in Tijuana to domestic...

... Gilbert . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2018 . xii, 370 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $32.95 ; e-book available. The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq . By Owen W. Gilman Jr. Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2018...

... and others affiliated with her didactic project for American literature. With their concentration on what Sedgwick frequently called ‘‘home education Sedgwick’s books of the late 1830s and the 1840s have garnered limited and generally unenthusiastic attention.9 But this was not the case in her own time...

..., is no stranger to the nineteenth-century home. Of course, domestic activities such as din- ing, decorating, visiting, and dancing have not only economic but also aesthetic components. Like works of art and natural embodiments of the beautiful and the sublime, everyday artifacts and activities can become...

... beings are cared for regardless of their economic value. Thus the direction of tender loving care toward an animal with no economic value demonstrated that a home was functioning as it ought to.” Loving and caring for pets became seen as an indication of one’s capacity to love human animals...

...—in conjunction with major texts of social reform, from legislation mandating mothers’ pensions to antilynching calls from the black press to advertising and home economics texts, she convincingly proves that modernist writers sought to undo the assumptions about family (and the 200  American Literature...

... the story of U.S. literary economics and its curi- ous investment in female sexual regulation through elaborate readings of key modernist novels in Grotesque Relations. Moving through the first half of the twentieth century as the U.S. welfare state is being organized, Edmunds shows how the home, so...

... the story of U.S. literary economics and its curi- ous investment in female sexual regulation through elaborate readings of key modernist novels in Grotesque Relations. Moving through the first half of the twentieth century as the U.S. welfare state is being organized, Edmunds shows how the home, so...

... the story of U.S. literary economics and its curi- ous investment in female sexual regulation through elaborate readings of key modernist novels in Grotesque Relations. Moving through the first half of the twentieth century as the U.S. welfare state is being organized, Edmunds shows how the home, so...