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Design at Home

Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945

By Grace Lees Maffei

To Be Published November 1st 2013 by Routledge – 224 pages

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    978-0-415-65669-6
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Contents

Introduction – Defining a Genre: Domestic Advice Literature. 1. The Roots of Domestic Advice Literature. 2. ‘The substance of history’: Using Domestic Advice. 3. Decline and Fall to Rise and Sprawl: Advice, Housing and the Middle Class. 4. Easier Living? Lady Behave! Advice and Gender. 5. Advice and the Teenage Consumer at Home. Conclusion – Digital Domesticities: Authority, Authorship and Access in 21st-Century Advice.

Name: Design at Home: Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945 (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: By Grace Lees Maffei. Design at Home, Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945, Grace Lees Maffei, Design History, Cultural Studies, Social & Cultural History, Art & Visual Culture, Media & Film Studies
Categories: Design History, Cultural Studies, Social & Cultural History, Art & Visual Culture, Media & Film Studies