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From Fireplace to Cookstove
Priscilla J. Brewer
其他書名
Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America
出版Syracuse University Press, 2000-09-01
主題Social Science / Women's StudiesHistory / United States / GeneralCooking / History
ISBN08156065089780815606505
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rV2GqiX5UioC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Priscilla J. Brewer examines the development and history of the first American appliance—the cast iron stove—that created a quiet, but culturally contested transformation of domestic life and sparked many important debates about the role of women, industrialization, the definition of social class, and the development of a consumer economy. Brewer explores the shift from fireplaces to stoves for cooking and heating in American homes, and sheds new light on the supposedly "separate spheres" of home and world of nineteenth- century America. She also considers the changing responses to technological development, the emergence of a consumption ethic, and the attempt to define and preserve distinct Anglo-American middle class culture. There are few works that treat this significant subject, and Brewer covers impressive new ground. Extensively documented—based on letters, diaries, probate inventories, census records, sales figures, advertisements, fiction, and advice literature-this book will be valuable to scholars of American history and women's studies.