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1 online resource (viii, 175 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Routledge advances in sociology ; 44
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Routledge advances in sociology ; 44.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Feminism, Postfeminism and Domestic Femininity -- Part II. Figures of Domestic Femininity -- Part III. Domestic Femininity in Reality and Lifestyle Television. |
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Part I. Feminism, Postfeminism and Domestic Femininity -- 1. Marguerite Patten, Television Cookery and Postwar British Femininity -- 2. Feminism and the Critique of Consumer Culture, 1950-1970 -- 3. "I Am Not a Housewife, but ... ": Postfeminism and the Revival of Domesticity -- Part II. Figures of Domestic Femininity -- 4. Shall I Be Mother?: Motherhood and Domesticity in Popular Culture -- 5. Husbandless Home: Domesticity and the Young Widow in the Contemporary Novel -- 6. Domestic Desire: Older Women in Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters -- 7. Ready-Maid Postfeminism?: The American 'Domestic' in Popular Culture -- Part III. Domestic Femininity in Reality and Lifestyle Television -- 8. Domestic Dystopias: Big Brother, Wife Swap and How Clean is Your House? -- 9. "It's Just Sad": Affect, Judgement and Emotional Labour in 'Reality' Television Viewing -- 10. Consuming Nigella. |
| Summary |
"This collection intervenes into the debates surrounding feminism's contentious relationship with domesticity in popular culture. The contributors touch on topics ranging from reality television shows like How Clean is Your House? to the figure of the maid in contemporary American cinema"--EBL. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Feminism. |
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Popular culture.
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Popular culture. |
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Women in popular culture.
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Women in popular culture. |
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Feminist theory.
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Feminist theory. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
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Feminist theory. |
| Added Author |
Gillis, Stacy, 1972-
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Hollows, Joanne.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Feminism, domesticity and popular culture. New York : Routledge, 2009 9780415963145 0415963141 (DLC) 2008016535 (OCoLC)225089602 |
| ISBN |
9780203889633 (electronic book) |
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0203889630 (electronic book) |
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0415963141 (Cloth) |
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9780415963145 |
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