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Diversity of Women
Joy . Ed(S): Parr
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paperback. Our perception of women's roles has changed dramatically since 1945. In this collection Joy Parr has brought together ten studies from a variety of disciplines examining changing ideas about women. Editor(s): Parr, Joy. Num Pages: 335 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
Our perception of women's roles has changed dramatically since 1945. In this collection Joy Parr has brought together ten studies from a variety of disciplines examining changing ideas about women.
Mariana Valverde writes about teenage girls in the immediate postwar years and finds that stereotypes of a supposedly simple, secure, politically quiescent, and sexually conformist life do not really hold. Joy Parr follows women shoppers of the early 1950s, in their sometimes comical encounters with male designers, manufacturers, and retailers, in search of the tools and totems of modernity for their homes. Increasingly these homes were in suburban subdivisions, whose ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
335
Condition
New
Number of Pages
335
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802076953
SKU
V9780802076953
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99-1
About Joy . Ed(S): Parr
Joy Parr is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Environment and the Everyday, in the department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario..
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