Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Households History 19th century
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Households History 20th century
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Women Social life and customs 19th century
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Women Social life and customs 20th century
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Social Class History
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Gender Identity History
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Home economics
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Consumption (Economics) Social aspects
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Lesson plans
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Great Britain Social conditions 19th century
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Great Britain Social conditions 20th century
Abstract:
Introduction -- Unit Outline. Week 1 Introduction: Why Study Domestic Culture? ; Week 2 Gender, Class, and the Separation of Spheres ; Week 3 Working-class Domestic Life in the Nineteenth Century ; Week 4 The Garden and the Suburb ; Week 5 Gender, Class, and the Politics of Suburban Domesticity ; Week 6 Domestic Space as Workplace 1: Domestic Service and Domestic Labour ; Week 7 Domestic Space as Workplace 2: Housewives and Homemaking ; Week 8 Domestic Consumption ; Week 9 Representing Class and Domestic Culture ; Week 10 Feminism, Femininity, and Domestic Culture -- Assessment Options -- Further Reading -- Enrichment Materials.
Abstract:
Introduction: Primarily aimed at undergraduates studying history or cultural studies, this ten-week unit introduces students to the importance of domestic cultures in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Engaging with debates about the separation and gendering of public and private spheres, the unit examines how ideas of home are the products of distinctive historical contexts and transformations. It explores how specific values and meanings have been mapped on to public and private spheres and structured everyday life and shaped identities. The unit pays particular attention to how domestic cultures are gendered and classed, and how they need to be understood within--and contribute to--wider power relations and inequalities. The lessons also question whether public and private can simply be understood as distinct and bounded spheres. The unit encourages students to analyze primary sources to understand how the meaning of home is created across a range of cultural forms and practices such as domestic advice literature and cookbooks, art, radio and television programming, and women's magazines
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Includes bibliographical references
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Zielgruppe - Audience: Primarily aimed at undergraduates studying history or cultural studies
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9781474209465.004
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