| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Janice Williams Rutherford. Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine Frederick and the Rise of Household Efficiency. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2003. Pp. xx, 283. $22.95.

Janice Williams Rutherford has written the first book-length biography of Christine Frederick, a leading home efficiency expert in the early twentieth century. Between 1912 and 1929, Frederick developed a national, and even international, reputation by advising other women how to be better home makers. Frederick was an apostle of scientific management, claiming that women should approach domestic work as a profession and that manufacturers in turn should develop products to help the housewife with their housework. She famously claimed responsibility for raising the kitchen sink, a change that made it easier for women to clean dishes. By advocating the application of technology in the name of greater household efficiency, Frederick attempted to make housework more satisfying for middle-class housewives who no longer could rely on domestic servants to run their homes.

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