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The Parlour and the Suburb - Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity (Paperback, New)
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The Parlour and the Suburb - Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity (Paperback, New)
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The Parlour and the Suburb challenges stereotypes about domesticity
with a reevaluation of women's roles in the 'private' sphere.
Classic accounts of modernity have generally ignored or
marginalized women, relegating them to the private sphere of home,
sexuality and personal relationships. This private sphere has been
understood as a gendered space in which a non-modern femininity is
opposed to the masculine world of politics, economics, urban life
and the workplace. The author argues, however, that home and
private life have been crucial spaces in which the interrelations
of class and gender have been significant in the formation of
modern feminine subjectivitiesFocusing on the first half of the
twentieth century, The Parlour and the Suburb examines how women
experienced and understood the home and private life in light of
modernity. It explores the identities and self-definitions that
domesticity inscribed and shows how these were central to women's
sense of themselves as 'modern' individuals. The book draws on a
range of cultural texts and practices to explore aspects of
domestic modernity that have received little attention in most
accounts of modern subjectivities. Topics covered include suburbia,
consumption practices, domestic service and the wartime figure of
the housewife. Texts examined include a range of women's magazines,
George Orwell's Coming up for Air, Betty Friedan's The Feminine
Mystique, BBC Home Service's 'Help for Housewives' and oral history
narratives. 'In this persuasively argued book Giles discusses the
highly gendered nature of the concept of modernity which has, to
date, marginalized the domestic space and women's traditional role
as 'homemakers'.'Stephanie Spencer, Literature & History
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