The Historian, June 22nd, 2004
From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice. By Sarah A. Leavitt. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 250. $18.95.) For many historians, economy means something quite different today than what the word originally denoted. The second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary offers this early definition: "the art or science of managing a household, esp. with regard to household expenses." Economy's etymology would apparently make such terms as domestic economy or home economics redundancies, except that these terms tel...
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