UID:
almafu_9959227861202883
Format:
1 online resource (246 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-772303-9
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1-280-47084-4
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1-4237-6009-3
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0-19-535272-6
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1-60256-302-0
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
American Domesticity considers representations of domesticity and domestic labour over the last two centuries in historical, popular and feminist texts, tracing key moments in the construction of normative domestic femininity.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1999.
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Contents; INTRODUCTION: Swept Away: The Truth about Dirt; I: HOUSEKEEPING BY THE BOOK; ONE: Housekeeping by the Book: From Hints to Home Economics; TWO: Making Home, Making Nation: Catharine Beecher's Domestic Economy; THREE: Tayloring the Home: The Fantasy of Domestic Engineering; II: HOUSEKEEPING IN HOLLYWOOD; FOUR: Silent Film, Silent Work: Early Cinema and the Domestic Melodramas of D. W. Griffith; FIVE: Lessons in Labor and Love: The Melodramatic Imperatives of Hollywood Housekeeping; SIX: The Labor of Maternal Melodramas: Converting Angels to Icons; III: HOUSEKEEPING AGAINST THE GRAIN
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SEVEN: Housekeeping against the Grain: Feminist Domesticity's Visible StyleEIGHT: Converting Melodrama to Manifesto: A Question of Silence; NINE: Experimental Domesticities: Patricia Gruben's The Central Character and Zeinabu Davis's Cycles; EPILOGUE; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W;
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-512261-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195122619.001.0001
