American Domesticity From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama |
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| Author:
| McHugh, Kathleen Anne |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-512261-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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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 an idea whose political power and effectivity in our national imagination cannot be overestimated -- that of normative domestic femininity.
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 an idea whose political power and effectivity in our national imagination cannot be overestimated -- that of normative domestic femininity.