This feminist rhetorical history explores women's complex and
changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry
into the workplace. Author Jessica Enoch examines the spatial
rhetorics that defined the home in the mid- to late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries and considers how its construction and
reconstruction-from discursive description to physical
composition-has greatly shaped women's efforts at taking on new
kinds of work. In doing so, Enoch exposes the ways dominant
discourses regarding women's home life and work life-rhetorics that
often assumed a white middle-class status-were complicated when
differently raced, cultured, and classed women encountered them.
Enoch explores how three different groups of women
workers-teachers, domestic scientists, and World War II factory
employees-contended with the physical and ideological space of the
home, examining how this everyday yet powerful space thwarted or
enabled their financial and familial security as well as their
intellectual engagements and work-related opportunities. Domestic
Occupations demonstrates a multimodal and multigenre research
method for conducting spatio-rhetorical analysis that serves as a
model for new kinds of thinking and new kinds of scholarship. This
study adds historical depth and exigency to an important
contemporary conversation in the public sphere about how women's
ties to the home inflect their access to work and professional
advancement.
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