Resources

We’ve found the below books, articles and databases helpful in the creation of this project. It’s ever-evolving; if you’ve created or come across a source that we should include here, please let us know.

 

Domestic Science 101

 

Food & Cooking

 

Literacy + Education

  • Aronson, Amy Beth. “Domesticity and Women's Collective Agency: Contribution and Collaboration in America's First Successful Women's Magazine.” American Periodicals, vol. 11, 2001, pp. 1–23., www.jstor.org/stable/20771136.

  • Miller, Elisa. In the Name of the Home: Women, Domestic Science, and American Higher Education, 1865-1930. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2004. https://www.proquest.com/openview/c65411ab134d16feb45d1b136cd1f2be/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y 

  • Radke-Moss, Andrea G. Bright Epoch: Women and Coeducation in the American West. University of Nebraska Press, November 2008.

  • Tsank, Stephanie. "The Ideal Observer Meets The Ideal Consumer: Realism, Domestic Science, and Immigrant Foodways in Willa Cather's My Ántonia (1918)." American Studies, vol. 57 no. 3, 2018, p. 39-56. Project MUSEdoi:10.1353/ams.2018.0046.

 

Abby Fisher

 

Janie Porter Barrett

  • Muth, Bill et al. “Janie Porter Barrett (1865-1948): Exemplary African American Correctional Educator.” Journal of Correctional Education, vol. 60, no. 1, 2009, pp. 31-51.

  • Scott, Anne Firor. “Janie Aurora Porter Barrett (1865-1948).” Library of Virginia,https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.php?b=Barrett_Janie_Porter.

  • Wenger, Étienne. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

 

Louisa Knapp Curtis

 

Malinda Russell

 

Maria Parloa

 

Marion Harland

  • Harland, Marion. Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1884.

  • Harland, Marion. Marion Harland’s Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life. Harper & Brothers, 1910.

  • “Marion Harland, Author, Dies at 91.” The New York Times, 4 Jun. 1922. https://www.nytimes.com/1922/06/04/archives/marion-harland-author-dies-at-91-mrs-mary-virginia-terhune-writer.html

  • Smith, Karen Manners. “Mary Virginia Terhune (Marion Harland): Writer, Minister's Wife, and Domestic Expert.” American Presbyterians, vol. 17, no. 2, 1994, pp. 111-122.

Databases

 

Race & Identity

The literature surrounding the women of color in this project is underdeveloped, and there are many women of color we don’t know about or whose names were never recorded. We are also not the first to write about these women. There is an existing body of literature surrounding these women of the domestic science movement and related subjects, and these authors' work has informed and inspired much of this project. Some include:

  • Toni Tipton-Martin

  • Michael Twitty

  • Frederick Douglass Opie

  • Jessica B. Harris

  • Psyche Williams-Forson

  • Adrian Miller

  • Tonya Hopkins

  • Marcia Chatelain

  • Edna Lewis

  • Kyla Wazana Tompkins

  • Thérèse Nelson

  • Rafia Zafar

  • Judith Carney

  • Jennifer Jensen Wallach

  • Traki L. Taylor

  • Sharon Harley

  • Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

  • Stephanie J. Shaw

Additionally, below are specific books and articles we have relied on:

  • Driskell, Jay Winston. “‘Respectable Militants’: The Neighborhood Union and the Transformation of the Politics of Respectability, 1908–1913.” Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics, University of Virginia Press, 2014, pp. 106–47, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qhb0p.7.

  • Harris, Paisley Jane. "Gatekeeping and Remaking: The Politics of Respectability in African American Women's History and Black Feminism." Journal of Women's History, vol. 15 no. 1, 2003, p. 212-220. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/jowh.2003.0025

  • Perkins, Linda M. “‘Bound to Them by a Common Sorrow’: African American Women, Higher Education, and Collective Advancement.” The Journal of African American History, vol. 100, no. 4, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2015, pp. 721–47, https://doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.100.4.0721 

  • Ibid. (1983), The Impact of the “Cult of True Womanhood” on the Education of Black Women. Journal of Social Issues, 39: 17-28. https://doi-org.proxy.library.nyu.edu/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1983.tb00152 

  • Vernese Edghill-Walden, et al. “We Speak Their Names: Counter Narratives of Black Women Liberators.” Black History Bulletin, vol. 81, no. 1, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2018, pp. 5–14, https://doi.org/10.5323/blachistbull.81.1.0005 

  • Walden, Sarah. “TASTE AND RACE: Revisions of Labor and Domestic Literacy in the Early Twentieth Century.” Tasteful Domesticity: Women’s Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018, pp. 143–65, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv6p4ph.10.

  • Wallach, Jennifer Jensen. Every Nation Has its Dish: Black Bodies & Black Food in Twentieth-Century America. The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

 

Health & Sanitation

 

Catharine Beecher

 

Ellen Swallow Richards

 

Lucy Craft Laney

  • Feger, H. V. “A GIRL WHO BECAME A GREAT WOMAN.” Negro History Bulletin, vol. 5, no. 6, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 1942, pp. 123–123, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44246284.

  • Jones, Ashley. “Lucy Craft Laney (1854-1933)”. BlackPast, 15 November 2017. https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/laney-lucy-craft-1854-1933/.

  • Harris, Sheena. “Margaret Murray Washington.” Alabama Women, edited by Susan Youngblood Ashmore and Lisa Lindquist Dorr, University of Georgia Press, 2017, pp. 129-144. muse.jhu.edu/book/52089.

  • McCluskey, Audrey Thomas. “‘We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible’: Black Women School Founders and Their Mission.” Signs, vol. 22, no. 2, University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 403–26, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175282

  • Perkins, Linda M. “‘Bound to Them by a Common Sorrow’: African American Women, Higher Education, and Collective Advancement.” The Journal of African American History, vol. 100, no. 4, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2015, pp. 721–47, https://doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.100.4.0721

  • Walden, Sarah. “TASTE AND RACE: Revisions of Labor and Domestic Literacy in the Early Twentieth Century.” Tasteful Domesticity: Women’s Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018, pp. 143–65,https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv6p4ph.10

 

Margaret Murray Washington

  • Harris, Sheena. “Margaret Murray Washington.” Alabama Women, edited by Susan Youngblood Ashmore and Lisa Lindquist Dorr, University of Georgia Press, 2017, pp. 129-144. muse.jhu.edu/book/52089

  • Ibid. Margaret Murray Washington: The Life and Times of a Career Clubwoman. University of Tennessee Press, January 2021. Patterson, Martha H. Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915. University of Illinois Press, 2005. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xcpv3.7Perkins, Linda M. “‘Bound to Them by a Common Sorrow’: African American Women, Higher Education, and Collective Advancement.” The Journal of African American History, vol. 100, no. 4, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 2015, pp. 721–47, https://doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.100.4.0721

  • Rouse, Jacqueline Anne. “Out of the Shadow of Tuskegee: Margaret Murray Washington, Social Activism, and Race Validation.” The Journal of Negro History, vol. 81, no. 1/4, University of Chicago Press, Winter-Autumn 1996, pp. 31-46. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717606.

  • Wallach, Jennifer Jensen. Every Nation Has its Dish: Black Bodies & Black Food in Twentieth-Century America. The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

 

Nannie Helen Burroughs

  • Bair, Sarah D. “Educating Black Girls in the Early 20th Century: The Pioneering Work of Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961).” Theory and Research in Social Education, vol. 36, no. 1, 2008, pp. 9-35.

  • Harley, Sharon. "Nannie Helen Burroughs: 'The Black Goddess of Liberty.'" The Journal of Negro History, vol. 81, no. 1, 1996, pp. 62-71.

  • Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. “Burroughs, Nannie Helen (1879-1961).” Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Darlene Clark Hine et al, University of Indiana Press, 1993, pp. 201-205.

  • McHugh, Jess. “Denied a teaching job for being ‘too Black,’ she started her own school — and a movement.” The Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/28/nannie-helen-burroughs-black-teacher/.

  • Shaw, Stephanie J. What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do. The University of Chicago Press, 1996.

  • Taylor, Traki L. “'Womanhood Glorified': Nannie Helen Burroughs and the National Training School for Women and Girls, Inc., 1909-1961.” The Journal of African American History, vol. 87, no. 4, 2002, pp. 390-402. The University of Chicago Press Journals, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/1562472.

  • Thomas, Veronica G., and Janine A. Jackson. “The Education of African American Girls and Women: Past to Present.” The Journal of Negro Education, vol, 76, no. 3, 2007, pp. 357-372.