Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family offers a fascinating look into the values of twentieth-century Americans, "bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century," as the editors describe it. Sample titles include How to Write Interesting Letters to Your Men in the Service and the wonderfully illustrated Guide to Wartime Cooking, both from 1943, illustrating an almost forgotten life on the WWII home front. How to Fascinate Men (1953) and Woman and Girl: A Manual of Personal Hygiene (1959) offer a more intimate look at what was called, in perhaps a less fair age, "the fairer sex."

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