SELECTED RESOURCE LIST FOR SISTERS OF THE QUILL AND SKILLET


Banks, Laura and Janette Barber. Breaking the Rules: Last-Ditch 
     Tactics for Landing the Man of Your Dreams, 1997.

Beecher, Catherine. A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use 
     of Young Ladies at Home and at School, 1841. And with 
     Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman's Home, 1869.

Bombeck, Erma.  At Wit's End; "Just Wait Until You Have Children 
     of your Own!"; I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal 
     Depression; The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic 
     Tank; If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the 
     Pits; Aunt Erma's Cope Book; Motherhood: The Second Oldest 
     Profession; Family: The Ties That Bind...and Gag!; When You 
     Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home; A 
     Marriage Made in Heaven or Too Tired for an Affair; All I 
     Know About Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing 
     Room. 

Bracken, Peg.  I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette 
     Book, 1959; I Hate to Cook Book, 1960; I Hate to Housekeep 
     Book, 1962; A Window Over the Sink, 1981. 

Brown, Helen Gurley. Sex and the Single Girl, 1962.

Child, Lydia Maria. The American Frugal Housewife, 1829.

Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were: American Families and	
     the Nostalgia Trap, 1992.

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz.  More Work For Mother, 1983.

Dance, Daryl Cumber. Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African 
     American Women's Humor, 1998.

Diller, Phyllis.  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966; 
     Phyllis Diller's Marriage Manual, 1967.

Doyle, Laura.  The Surrendered Wife, 2001.

Dresner, Zita Zatkin. "Twentieth Century American Women 
     Humorists."  Dissertation, pp 116-325. University of 
     Maryland, 1982.  

Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: 150 
     Years of the Experts' Advice to Women, 1978.

Fein, Ellen and Sherrie Schneider.  The Rules: Time-Tested 
     Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right, 1995; The 
     Rules II:More Rules to Live and Love By, 1997; The Rules 
     for Marriage: Time-Tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage 
     Work, 2001.                                         

Flanagan, Caitlin. "Housewife Confidential," Atlantic Monthly, 
     September, 2003, pp. 141-150.

Frederick, Christine. The New Housekeeping, 1913; Household 
     Engineering: Scientific Management of the Home, 1919
                                                    
Friedan, Betty.  The Feminine Mystique, 1963.

Gilbreath, Lillian et al. Management in the Home, 1954.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women and Economics, 1898.

Halsey, Margaret. This Demi-Paradise: A Westchester Diary, 1960.

Harland, Marion.  The Housekeeper's Week, 1908.

Horsfield, Margaret.  Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework, 
     1998.

Hoy, Suellen. Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness,
     1995.

Jackson, Shirley. Life Among the Savages, 1948.

Kerr, Jean.  The Snake Has All the Lines (1960) and Please Don't
     Eat the Daisies, 1957.

Leavitt, Sarah.  From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: a 
     Cultural History of Domestic Advice, 2002.

MacDonald, Betty.  The Egg and I, 1945; Anbody Can Do Anything 
     1950.

Matthews, Glenna.  "Just a Housewife": The Rise and Fall of 
     Domesticity in America, 1987.

Roberts, Shelly.  Roberts' Rules of Lesbian Dating, 1998;
     Roberts' Rules of Lesbian Living, 1996; Roberts' 
     Rules of Lesbian Break-ups, 1997.

Rupp, Leila J. and Verta Taylor.  Survival in the Doldrums: The 
     American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s, 1987.

Shapiro, Laura.  Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn 
     of the Century, 1986.

Smith, Elinor Goulding.  The Complete Book of Absolutely Perfect 
     Housekeeping, 1956.

Strasser, Susan.  Never Done: A History of American Housework, 
     1982.
 
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, Playing House:
    Homemaking for Children,
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.ChildHomeEc

Walker, Nancy. Women's Magazines 1940-1960: Gender Roles and the 
     Popular Press, 1998; Shaping Our Mother's World: American 
     Women's Magazines, 2000; "Creamed and Molded," in Santa 
     Barbara Review, winter/spring 1996.