| It was another Skin: The Kitchen in 1950s Western Australia Contributor(s): Supski, Sian (Author) |
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ISBN: 3039112341 ISBN-13: 9783039112340 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $81.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| Series: European University Studies: Series 22, Sociology |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6" W x 9" (0.91 lbs) 294 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study examines the meanings of the kitchen to women who were wives, mothers, housewives and homemakers in the 1950s in Western Australia. It uses qualitative data collected from oral history interviews with migrant and Australian born women. The book provides insight to women's everyday lives and analyses practices, such as cooking, ironing, budgeting, shopping, dishwashing and decorating which provide women with power. Central themes of this study explore the meaning of home and kitchen design and analyses how practices of the kitchen inform women's multiple identities. It also shows how dominant discourses, such as domesticity, femininity and efficiency reinforce gendered notions of women's work in the kitchen. Moreover, the book examines points of resistance, it shows that women perform their everyday practices, design their kitchens and decorate them in ways that perhaps were not always intended by domestic science experts, designers, architects and manufacturers. |
