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Home Sweat Home
Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships
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2014
Summary
Coeditors Elizabeth Patton and Mimi Choi argue that an in-depth examination of media images of housework from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century is long overdue. Modern depictions often imply that certain concerns can be resolved through excessive domesticity, reflecting some of the complicated and unfinished issues of second-wave feminism. Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships reveals how widespread the cultural image of “perfect” housewives and the invisibility of household labor were in the past and remain today.
In this collection of essays, contributors explore the construction of women as homemakers and the erasure of household labor from the middle-class home in popular representations of housework. They concentrate on such matters as the impact of second-wave feminism on families and gender relations; of popular culture—especially in film, television, magazines, and advertising—on our views of what constitutes home life and gender relations; and of changing views of sexuality and masculinity within the domestic sphere.
Home Sweat Home will interest students and scholars of gender, cultural, media, and communication studies; sociology; and American history and appeal to anyone curious about housework, gender relations and popular culture.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-2969-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-2970-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
260
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 Hung Out to Dry No access Pages 1 - 26
2 Snapshot Photography, Women’s Domestic Work, and the “Kodak Moment,” 1910s–1960s No access Pages 27 - 48
3 From Chimney Sweeps to House-Elves No access Pages 49 - 68
4 Appliance Reliance No access Pages 69 - 88
5 Making Easier the Lives of Our Housewives No access Pages 89 - 104
6 Supernatural Housework No access Pages 105 - 122
7 Every Day Should Be Like Sunny Weather No access Pages 123 - 146
8 Spaces of Masculinity and Work No access Pages 147 - 166
9 Kuaering “Home” in Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet No access Pages 167 - 182
10 Good Luck Raising the Modern Family No access Pages 183 - 200
11 No Longer Whistling While You Work? No access Pages 201 - 224
12 I Couldn’t Do It Without Her No access Pages 225 - 240
Suggested Reading No access Pages 241 - 246
Index No access Pages 247 - 256
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 257 - 260
