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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Cautions to Farmers Concerning the Stud-Horse: Observations on the Preservation of Domestic Purity and the Dutiful Wife

Cautions to Farmers Concerning the Stud-Horse: Observations on the Preservation of Domestic Purity and the Dutiful Wife

Heimann, Sarah K.
Chandler, Zachariah

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Women's Studies

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ISBN13: 9798180266217
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Cautions to Farmers Concerning the Stud-Horse is a curious and unsettling work of rural moral instruction, presented as practical advice to frontier farmers but driven by deeper fears about household disorder. Its narrator warns that the breeding stallion, though economically useful, becomes morally dangerous when brought too near the dwelling, made visible to wives and children, or discussed in coarse masculine company. Through solemn admonitions, cautionary anecdotes, and proposed rules for yards, fences, servants, husbands, and speech, the treatise transforms animal husbandry into a drama of domestic purity.

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