Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library announces a
new virtual exhibition DEFINING HER LIFE: ADVICE BOOKS FOR WOMEN. The
exhibition can be seen at
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/women/index.htm.
The exhibition features books on cooking, household management,
sports and recreation, health, and etiquette published between 1650 and
1950. The focus of the exhibition will be the ways in which advice
literature defined a woman's role both in the family and in society. As
society changed, the advice literature changed, but maintained and
perpetuated traditional views about the female in society. Iris Snyder,
Associate Librarian, Special Collections, is the exhibition curator.
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Iris Snyder
Special Collections
University of Delaware Library
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