It was another Skin: The Kitchen in 1950s Western Australia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783039112340)

This study examines the meanings of the kitchen to women who were wives, mothers, housewives and homemakers in the 1950s in Western Australia. It uses qualitative data collected from oral history interviews with migrant and Australian born women.
The book provides insight to women's everyday lives and analyses practices, such as cooking, ironing, budgeting, shopping, dishwashing and decorating which provide women with power. Central themes of this study explore the meaning of home and kitchen design and analyses how practices of the kitchen inform women's multiple identities. It also shows how dominant discourses, such as domesticity, femininity and efficiency reinforce gendered notions of women's work in the kitchen. Moreover, the book examines points of resistance, it shows that women perform their everyday practices, design their kitchens and decorate them in ways that perhaps were not always intended by domestic science experts, designers, architects and manufacturers.

Author: Sian Supski
ISBN-10: 3039112341
ISBN-13: 9783039112340
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2007
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d