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Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

By Joanne Hollows , Stacy Gillis

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0415963141, 9780415963145, 9780203889633
LCC
HQ1111 .F458 2009
Open Library ID
OL10208978M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1968532 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
186\186
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The relationship between feminism and domesticity has recently come in for renewed interest in popular culture. This collection makes an intervention into the debates surrounding feminism’s contentious relationship with domesticity and domestic femininities in popular culture. It offers an understanding of the place of domesticity in contemporary popular culture whilst considering how these domesticities might be understood from a feminist perspective. All the essays contribute to a more complex understanding of the relationships between feminism, femininity and domesticity, developing new ways of theorizing these relationships that have marked much of feminist history. Essay topics include Marguerite Patten, reality television shows like How Clean is Your House?, the figure of the maid in contemporary American cinema, aging or widowed domestic femininities, and the relationship between domesticity and motherhood.

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