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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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Description
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.
Subject
  • Women in motion pictures
  • Housework in motion pictures
  • Feminism in motion pictures
  • Femmes au cinéma
  • Féminisme au cinéma
  • Femmes au foyer au cinéma
  • Économie domestique au cinéma
  • Women in motion pictures
  • Film
  • Hausarbeit
  • Hausfrau Motiv
  • Häuslichkeit Motiv
  • Huishoudelijke arbeid
  • Huisvrouwen
  • Handboeken
  • Films
  • USA
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
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library