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The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen : From Sokol'niki Park to Chicago's South Side /

"Race, domesticity, and consumerism in the Cold War era. This book demonstrates the ways in which the kitchen--the centerpiece of domesticity and consumerism--was deployed as a recurring motif in the ideological and propaganda battles of the Cold War. Beginning with the famous Nixon-Khrushchev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Baldwin, Kate A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Cold War, hot kitchen
  • Envy and other warm guns : Ray and Charles Eames at the American National Exhibition in Moscow
  • Reframing the Cold War kitchen : Sylvia Plath, Byt, and the radical imaginary of The bell jar
  • Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya, and the conditions of Cold War womanhood
  • Lorraine Hansberry and the social life of emotions
  • Selling the homeland : Silk Stockings, stilyagi, and style
  • Epilogue: A kitchen in history.