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American Domesticity: From How-to Manual to Hollywood Melodrama
McHugh, Kathleen Anne (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California at Riverside)
American Domesticity: From How-to Manual to Hollywood Melodrama
McHugh, Kathleen Anne (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California at Riverside)
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.
246 pages, 1 halftone
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 17, 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780195122619 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 248 |
Dimensions | 167 × 232 × 22 mm · 585 g |