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It Was Another Skin - The Kitchen in 1950s Western Australia (Paperback)
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It Was Another Skin - The Kitchen in 1950s Western Australia (Paperback)
Series: Europaische Hochschulschriften/European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeennes Reihe 22: Soziologie/Series 22: Sociology/Serie 22: Sociologie, 414
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This study examines the meanings of the kitchen to women who were
wives, mothers, housewives and homemakers in the 1950s in Western
Australia. It uses qualitative data collected from oral history
interviews with migrant and Australian born women. The book
provides insight to women's everyday lives and analyses practices,
such as cooking, ironing, budgeting, shopping, dishwashing and
decorating which provide women with power. Central themes of this
study explore the meaning of home and kitchen design and analyses
how practices of the kitchen inform women's multiple identities. It
also shows how dominant discourses, such as domesticity, femininity
and efficiency reinforce gendered notions of women's work in the
kitchen. Moreover, the book examines points of resistance, it shows
that women perform their everyday practices, design their kitchens
and decorate them in ways that perhaps were not always intended by
domestic science experts, designers, architects and manufacturers.
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Imprint: |
Verlag Peter Lang
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Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Series: |
Europaische Hochschulschriften/European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeennes Reihe 22: Soziologie/Series 22: Sociology/Serie 22: Sociologie, 414 |
Release date: |
February 2007 |
Authors: |
Sian Supski
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Dimensions: |
220 x 150 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
305 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-911234-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
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LSN: |
3-03-911234-1 |
Barcode: |
9783039112340 |
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