Home Sweat Home

Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships
Herausgeber: Patton, Elizabeth; Choi, Mimi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Domestic Relationships, contributors explore the construction of women as homemakers and the erasure of household labor from the middle-class home in popular representations of housework.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9781442229693
• ISBN-10: 1442229691
• Artikelnr.: 39684555

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Patton is program coordinator and full-time faculty in the Johns Hopkins University Masters in Communication program in Washington, D.C. She received her doctorate from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her research includes media history; representations of gender, class, and race within mass media; and the impact of communication technology on space, family, and work-life balance. Mimi Choi received her MA from Ryerson University's Literatures of Modernity program in Toronto, Canada, after more than two decades of professional writing and editing in the financial, book, and magazine publishing industries. Her academic research encompasses the British and American novel, feminist theory and gender studies, and reception theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Hung Out to Dry: Laundry Advertising and the American Woman,
1890-1920 by Kristi Branham
Chapter 2: Snapshot Photography, Women's Domestic Work and the "Kodak
Moment" 1910s-60s by Nicola Goc
Chapter 3: From Chimney Sweeps to House Elves: Housework, Subject
Formation, Agency, and British Children's Fantasy Literature 1863-2007 by
Hannah Swamidoss
Chapter 4: Appliance Reliance: Domestic Technologies and the
Depersonalization of Housework in Postwar American Speculative Fiction by
Andrea Krafft
Chapter 5: Making Easier the Lives of our Housewives: Visions of Domestic
Technology in the Kitchen Debate by Nicole Williams Barnes
Chapter 6: Supernatural Housework: Magic and Domesticity in 1960s
Television by Kristi Rowan Humphreys
Chapter 7: Every Day Should Be Like Sunny Weather: Ayelet Waldman and
Michael Chabon Channel Carol Channing to Resolve the Politics of Housework
for a New Generation of Parents by Mimi Choi
Chapter 8: Spaces of Masculinity and Work: Bringing Men Back into the
Domestic Sphere by Elizabeth Patton
Chapter 9: Kauering "Home" in Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet by Gust A. Yep
and Ryan Lescure
Chapter 10: Good Luck Raising the Modern Family: Analyzing Portrayals of
Sexual Division of Labor and Socioeconomic Class on Family Sitcoms by Nancy
E. Bressler
Chapter 11: No Longer Whistling While You Work? Reanimating the Cult of
Domesticity in The Incredibles by Christopher Holliday
Chapter 12: I Couldn't Do It without Her: Big Love, Sister Wives, and
Housework by Rita M. Jones
Suggested Reading
About the Contributors