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UNINA9910807353603321 |
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Home sweat home : perspectives on housework and modern relationships / / edited by Elizabeth Patton, Mimi Choi |
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Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 p.) |
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Homemakers |
Housekeeping |
Second-wave feminism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hung Out to Dry; 2 Snapshot Photography, Women's Domestic Work, and the "Kodak Moment," 1910s-1960s; 3 From Chimney Sweeps to House-Elves; 4 Appliance Reliance; 5 Making Easier the Lives of Our Housewives; 6 Supernatural Housework; 7 Every Day Should Be Like Sunny Weather; 8 Spaces of Masculinity and Work; 9 Kuaering "Home" in Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet; 10 Good Luck Raising the Modern Family; 11 No Longer Whistling While You Work?; 12 I Couldn't Do It Without Her; Suggested Reading; Index; About the Editors and Contributors |
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<span><span>Coeditors 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. </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships</span><span> reveals how widespread the cultural image of "perfect" housewives and the invisibility of househ |
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UNINA9910953975203321 |
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Women's suffrage in Asia : gender, nationalism and democracy / / edited by Louise Edwards and Mina Roces |
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London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 |
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1-134-32035-3 |
1-134-32036-1 |
1-280-53947-X |
9786610539475 |
0-203-40144-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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RoutledgeCurzon studies in the modern history of Asia ; ; 16 |
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EdwardsLouise P |
RocesMina <1959-> |
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Women - Suffrage - Asia |
Women - Asia - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : orienting the global women's suffrage movement / Louise Edwards and Mina Roces -- Is the suffragist an American colonial construct? : defining 'the Filipino woman' in colonial Philippines / Mina Roces -- Chinese women's campaigns for suffrage : nationalism, Confucianism and political agency / Louise Edwards -- Women's suffrage and democracy in Indonesia / Susan Blackburn -- Women's suffrage in Viet Nam / Micheline R. Lessard -- Citizenship and suffrage in interwar Japan / Barbara Molony -- Expanding their realm : women and public agency in colonial Korea / Ken Wells -- The politics of women's suffrage in Thailand / Tamara Loos -- Tradition, law and the female suffrage movement in India / Gail Pearson -- Settler anxieties, indigenous peoples and women's suffrage in the colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Hawai'i, 1888 to 1902 / Patricia Grimshaw. |
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Including chapters on Indonesia, India, Thailand, China, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Vietnam and international suffrage connections, Women's Suffrage in Asia engages in debates on suffrage in the region by raising issues unique to the country's case studies presented. It |
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explains why the history of suffrage is neglected in the nationalist historiography and untangles the connections between culture, nationalism and colonialism in the context of women's struggles for suffrage. |
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