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- catalog abstract ""Made from Scratch tells the story of the unsung heroines of the hearth, investigating the history of female domesticity and charting its cultural changes over centuries. Zimmerman traces the lives of her own family's homemakers - from her tiny but indomitable grandmother, who managed a farm, strangled chickens with her bare hands, and sewed all the family clothing, to her mother, who rejected her country upbringing yet kept a fastidious suburban home where the gender divide stayed firmly in place, to her own experiences as a wife and mother weaned on the Women's Movement of the 1970s, with its emphatic view that housework was a dirty word and that the domestic sphere was to be fled rather than cherished. In this book Zimmerman questions the unexamined trade-off we have made in a shockingly brief time span, as we've "progressed" from home-raised chickens to frozen TV dinners to McNuggets from the food court at the mall. What is lost when we no longer engage, as individuals and as a community, in the ancient rituals of food, craft, and shelter?"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12745748.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Made from Scratch tells the story of the unsung heroines of the hearth, investigating the history of female domesticity and charting its cultural changes over centuries. Zimmerman traces the lives of her own family's homemakers - from her tiny but indomitable grandmother, who managed a farm, strangled chickens with her bare hands, and sewed all the family clothing, to her mother, who rejected her country upbringing yet kept a fastidious suburban home where the gender divide stayed firmly in place, to her own experiences as a wife and mother weaned on the Women's Movement of the 1970s, with its emphatic view that housework was a dirty word and that the domestic sphere was to be fled rather than cherished. In this book Zimmerman questions the unexamined trade-off we have made in a shockingly brief time span, as we've "progressed" from home-raised chickens to frozen TV dinners to McNuggets from the food court at the mall. What is lost when we no longer engage, as individuals and as a community, in the ancient rituals of food, craft, and shelter?"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Heirlooms -- Hestia's fire -- Domestic saints -- Home Ec 101 -- A broom of one's own -- New mom -- A specialty -- Cloth divas.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263).".
- catalog extent "xvi, 266 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0684869594".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "640/.973 21".
- catalog subject "Home economics United States History.".
- catalog subject "Home economics United States Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "TX23 .Z55 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Heirlooms -- Hestia's fire -- Domestic saints -- Home Ec 101 -- A broom of one's own -- New mom -- A specialty -- Cloth divas.".
- catalog title "Made from scratch : reclaiming the pleasures of the American hearth / Jean Zimmerman.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".