Machine liberation : inventing housewives and home appliances in interwar France

Author

Frost, Robert L.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

French historical studies. 1993, Num. 1, Vol. 18, 109-130, 4 ill.; 1 plan

ISSN

0016-1071

Abstract (en)

Argues that modernists largely succeeded in developing avenues for selling the image of the comfortable, consumerist family, and that this new vision gestured toward the liberatory possibilities of a technologically transformed social and political order. This new order would include a new middle class with an agenda for growth and consumption beyond the great class divide and a new woman who was simultaneously worker, housekeeper and prolific parent. Includes discussion of household appliances, kitchen design and advertising.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- France
• Appliances
• France
• 1900-2000
• Society
• Kitchens
• Advertising
• Modernism
• Consumers
• Technology
• Women

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- France
• Appareil ménager
• France
• 1900-2000
• Société
• Cuisine (pièce)
• Publicité
• Modernisme
• Consommateurs
• Technologie
• Femmes

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00338708

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