Lesley Johnson

Sentenced to Everyday Life: Feminism and the Housewife

Buch

The history of the housewife is a complicated and uneasy narrative, rife with contradictions, tensions, and unanswered questions. What is the relationship between women and the home? And why are women reluctant to call themselves housewives? Starting with an exploration of why 1940s housewives became associated with drudgery, this book examines how magazines and advertising articulated connected women with the domestic sphere, while 1950s films explored the shifting boundaries between social, family, and individual desires and constraints for women. Johnson and Lloyd also study the home as a site of boredom, and the balance between work and f… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Lloyd, Justine

ISBN: 978-1-84520-032-9
EAN: 9781845200329
Produktnummer: 33592699
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Masse: H23.2 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.0 cm 331 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 331

Über den Autor

Dr. Lesley Johnson is the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.Dr. Justine Lloyd is an Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the University of Technology, Sydney.