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Author:

Stanley, Adam C., 1974-

Title:

Modernizing tradition : gender and consumerism in interwar France and Germany / Adam C. Stanley.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xii, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Consumption (Economics)--History--France--History--20th century.
Consumption (Economics)--History--Germany--History--20th century.
Women--France--History--20th century.
Women--Germany--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-249) and index.

Contents:

Duty and empowerment : constructing modern housewives -- Women's "delightful duty" : the discourse of motherhood -- Gendering the boundaries of public and private : fashion, beauty, and health -- Eve's conquest of the steering wheel : gender and automobiles -- At work and at play : labor and leisure.

ISBN:

0807133620 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807133620 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)202545496

LCCN:

2008007959

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)