{"product_id":"home-sweat-home-9781442229693","title":"Home Sweat Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoeditors Elizabeth Patton and Mimi Choi argue that an in-depth examination of media images of housework from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century is long overdue. Modern depictions often imply that certain concerns can be resolved through excessive domesticity, reflecting some of the complicated and unfinished issues of second-wave feminism. Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships reveals how widespread the cultural image of perfect housewives and the invisibility of household labor were in the past and remain today. In this collection of essays, contributors explore the construction of women as homemakers and the erasure of household labor from the middle-class home in popular representations of housework. They concentrate on such matters as the impact of second-wave feminism on families and gender relations; of popular cultureespecially in film, television, magazines, and advertisingon our views of what constitutes home life and ge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by seminal works in feminist literature, editors Patton and Choi have assembled 12 articles examining gender stereotypes surrounding housework from the late 1800s through the 20th century. Contributors emphasize the role of culture and media in developing idealized aspirations of modern domesticity, in addition to researching housework trends. Chapters cover topics such as the use of modern appliances, parenting, and men's roles in domestic tasks. . . .[T]hose within higher education will find that chapters are well researched and written and cover novel areas of inquiry. The detailed index, along with the table of contents and list of figures, will aid readers in easily navigating to sections of interest within the work. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers\/faculty. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a rich and rewarding collection of scholarship that deftly dismantles the stubborn repetitions across media culture of images of housework; repetitions that insist that the happy completion of these routine, invisible and undervalued chores are the central source of value in a cult of womanhood. * Women's Studies International Forum *\u003cbr\u003ePreviously unacquainted academics from different fields—English, media\/communications, gender and women’s studies—responded to a call for papers and bonded over their common interest. The resulting essays...approach the topic from a refreshing variety of starting points. Their discussions, which range from the vision of domestic technology expressed in the political discourse of the 1960s 'Kitchen Debates' to analysis of housework depicted in the animated film The Incredibles, leave strong impressions. * Feminist Collections: A Quarterly Of Women's Studies Resources *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDedication Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Hung Out to Dry: Laundry Advertising and the American Woman, 1890-1920 by Kristi Branham  Chapter 2: Snapshot Photography, Women’s Domestic Work and the “Kodak Moment” 1910s–60s by Nicola Goc  Chapter 3: From Chimney Sweeps to House Elves: Housework, Subject Formation, Agency, and British Children’s Fantasy Literature 1863-2007 by Hannah Swamidoss  Chapter 4: Appliance Reliance: Domestic Technologies and the Depersonalization of Housework in Postwar American Speculative Fiction by Andrea Krafft  Chapter 5: Making Easier the Lives of our Housewives: Visions of Domestic Technology in the Kitchen Debate by Nicole Williams Barnes  Chapter 6: Supernatural Housework: Magic and Domesticity in 1960s Television by Kristi Rowan Humphreys  Chapter 7: Every Day Should Be Like Sunny Weather: Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon Channel Carol Channing to Resolve the Politics of Housework for a New Generation of Parents by Mimi Choi  Chapter 8: Spaces of Masculinity and Work: Bringing Men Back into the Domestic Sphere by Elizabeth Patton  Chapter 9: Kauering “Home” in Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet by Gust A. Yep and Ryan Lescure  Chapter 10: Good Luck Raising the Modern Family: Analyzing Portrayals of Sexual Division of Labor and Socioeconomic Class on Family Sitcoms by Nancy E. Bressler  Chapter 11: No Longer Whistling While You Work? Reanimating the Cult of Domesticity in The Incredibles by Christopher Holliday  Chapter 12: I Couldn’t Do It without Her: Big Love, Sister Wives, and Housework by Rita M. Jones Suggested Reading About the Contributors","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039892865367,"sku":"9781442229693","price":78.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442229693.jpg?v=1750945174","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/home-sweat-home-9781442229693","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}