Modernizing Tradition : Gender and Consumerism in Interwar France and Germany /

In the turbulent decades after World War I, both France and Germany sought to return to an idealized, prewar past. Many people believed they could recapture a sense of order and stability by reinstituting traditional gender roles, which the war had thrown off balance. While French and German women n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stanley, Adam C., 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women.
Consumption (Economics) > Sex differences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Femmes > France > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Women > Germany > History > 20th century.
Women > France > History > 20th century.
Consumption (Economics) > Sex differences > Germany > History > 20th century.
Consumption (Economics) > Sex differences > France > History > 20th century.
Germany.
France.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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