Add to ORKGTHe ideal American housewife is based off of post World War II media driven model. Society judged a 1950s family on the involvement of the wife within the home. By social standards housewives were expected to work full-time in the home. Electric appliances were introduced as saving devises and became socially accepted as necessities of the modern home. Contrary to popular belief electric home appliances did not reduce the amount of work required by a housewife but rather increased the number of obligations which she became responsible for
During the first two thirds of the 20th century, electricity, running water, and a host of new consu...
abstract: While there are many characteristics that make up a woman, femininity is one that is diffi...
By Laura Micheletti Puaca The post-World War II United States is popularly remembered as the heyday ...
Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. Households were inundated with a flood of new ...
Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and ...
Electrical appliances used in housework have diffused at slower rates than those used for entertainm...
Home production has changed dramatically during the course of the 20th century: Labor sav-ing techno...
What is the relationship between social change and technological change? According to the technologi...
The modern kitchen was emblematic of a cold war obsession with household consumer durables as a meas...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
When World War II ended with the dramatic explosions of the atomic bombs, the United States emerged ...
Magazine advertisements not only served a space in which to be informed of new products, they also h...
Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. Households were inundated with a ood of new co...
During the postwar period the modern family home assumed a special place in the Australian imaginary...
During the first two thirds of the 20th century, electricity, running water, and a host of new consu...
abstract: While there are many characteristics that make up a woman, femininity is one that is diffi...
By Laura Micheletti Puaca The post-World War II United States is popularly remembered as the heyday ...
Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. Households were inundated with a flood of new ...
Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and ...
Electrical appliances used in housework have diffused at slower rates than those used for entertainm...
Home production has changed dramatically during the course of the 20th century: Labor sav-ing techno...
What is the relationship between social change and technological change? According to the technologi...
The modern kitchen was emblematic of a cold war obsession with household consumer durables as a meas...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
When World War II ended with the dramatic explosions of the atomic bombs, the United States emerged ...
Magazine advertisements not only served a space in which to be informed of new products, they also h...
Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. Households were inundated with a ood of new co...
During the postwar period the modern family home assumed a special place in the Australian imaginary...
During the first two thirds of the 20th century, electricity, running water, and a host of new consu...
abstract: While there are many characteristics that make up a woman, femininity is one that is diffi...
By Laura Micheletti Puaca The post-World War II United States is popularly remembered as the heyday ...