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American domesticity : from how-to manual to Hollywood melodrama

Title: American domesticity : from how-to manual to Hollywood melodrama / Kathleen Anne McHugh.
Author: McHugh, Kathleen Anne.
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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x, 235 pages; 25 cm

Summary

From the "cult of domesticity" to the Semiotics of the Kitchen, housekeeping has been central to both constructing and critiquing the role of women in American society. Frequently domesticity's style has been to make invisible the labor that produces it, allowing "woman" to be asserted or argued about in universal terms that down-play race, class, and material relations. American Domesticity considers this relationship in representations of domesticity and domestic labor over the last two centuries in didactic, cinematic, and feminist texts.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Housekeeping by the Book. 1. Housekeeping by the Book. 2. Making Home, Making Nation. 3. Tayloring the Home -- II. Housekeeping in Hollywood. 4. Silent Film, Silent Work. 5. Lessons in Labor and Love. 6. The Labor of Maternal Melodramas -- III. Housekeeping Against the Grain. 7. Housekeeping against the Grain. 8. Converting Melodrama to Manifesto. 9. Experimental Domesticities.

ISBN

0195122615
9780195122619
9786610470846
6610470847

LCCN

98025603
9780195122619

OCLC

ocm39556252
39556252
SCSB-14252729

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Princeton University Library