The Home-maker

The Home-maker
Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1924
Genre: Accident victims
ISBN:

Novel describes the problems of a family in which husband and wife are oppressed and frustrated by the roles that they are expected to play. Evangeline Knapp is the ideal housekeeper, while her husband, Lester is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed; Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family. The changes that take place between husband and wife and between parents and children are handled in a contemporary manner.

The Christian Homemaker's Handbook

The Christian Homemaker's Handbook
Author: Pat Ennis
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 143352838X

The ultimate guide to Christian homemaking advises readers on everything from meal planning to interior decorating, biblical womanhood to budgeting, serving as a comprehensive handbook for the woman and her home.

Voices of American Homemakers

Voices of American Homemakers
Author: Eleanor Arnold
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1993
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780253129864

Voices of American is a book about women, family values, and making a life in rural America in the first half of this century. It distills some 200 oral histories collected from 37 states organized around the essential rites and functions of life: growing up, education, courtship, marriage, child rearing, the homemaker and her work, the organizations that supported her, and her sense of self.