Design at Home: Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA Since 1945

Design at Home: Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA Since 1945
ISBN-10
0415656699
ISBN-13
9780415656696
Category
Family & Relationships
Language
English
Published
2014
Publisher
Directions in Cultural History
Author
Grace Lees-Maffei

Description

Design at Home brings together etiquette, homemaking and home decoration sources in the first systematic demonstration of the historical value of the category of domestic advice literature for understanding homes of the past as socially and materially constructed. Using a transatlantic perspective, this book traces a domestic dialogue between the UK and the US as the chapters explore issues of design, domesticity, consumption, social interaction and identity markers including class, gender and age. It asks: who was really best served by the solutions offered? Design at Home will interest students, teachers and researchers working in cultural and social history, design history, popular culture studies, American studies, women's and gender studies and youth and family studies.

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