Main entry:

Giles, Judy.

Title & Author:

The parlour and the suburb : domestic identities, class, femininity and modernity / Judy Giles.

Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2004.

Description:

ix, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
'Something that little bit better' : suburban modernity, prudential marriage, and self-improvement -- Help for housewives : domestic service -- Getting and spending, identity and consumption -- Legacies : the question of 'home' and women's modernity.

Summary:

This work argues that home and private life have been crucial spaces in which the interrelations of class and gender have been significant in the formation of modern feminine identities.

Resources:
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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

185973796X (hbk.)
9781859737965 (hbk.)
1859737021 (pbk.)
9781859737026 (pbk.)

Subject:

Women Social conditions 20th century.
Housewives.
Sex role.
Suburbs.
Femmes Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
Femmes au foyer.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Banlieues.
housewives (people)
sex role.
Women Social conditions
Huisvrouwen.
Sekserol.
Sociale situatie.
Voorsteden.
Women.
Womyn.
Gender roles.
Women 1910-1960.
Housewives (people) 1910-1960.
Sex role 1910-1960.
Suburbs 1910-1960.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232178
Call No.: HQ1154 .G493 2004
Status: Available