| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote. By Janet Theophano. (New York: Palgrave, 2002. xviii, 362 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-312-23378-7.)

In Eat My Words, Janet Theophano joins other historians in bringing a domestic, material culture perspective to women's social history research. The approach grew out of need. Ordinary women wrote few diaries, letters, or other intentionally self-disclosing or descriptive narratives, and until recently secondary historical sources were notorious for excluding women's everyday experiences and contributions to society. Consequently, scholars of women's history have sought unconventional avenues of investigation. Some have turned to utilitarian objects and writings routinely created or used by women such as quilts, garments, family Bibles, scrapbooks, furnishings of all kinds, and other domestic items and have found them to be rich resources for understanding women's lives. Indeed, sometimes the only existing evidence of a woman's life is embodied in those domestic remnants.

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