TY - JOUR
T1 - Dialectic of Domesticity
T2 - Homemaking and ITS Discontents in 1920s American Drama
AU - Chansky, Dorothy
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In the 1920s, homemaking was presented for the first time to American women by advertisers and educators as a putative career, combining art, science, economics, and a rhetoric of fulfillment. This essay considers how Broadway plays promoted, challenged, debated, and sold versions of this idea across a spectrum of genres.
AB - In the 1920s, homemaking was presented for the first time to American women by advertisers and educators as a putative career, combining art, science, economics, and a rhetoric of fulfillment. This essay considers how Broadway plays promoted, challenged, debated, and sold versions of this idea across a spectrum of genres.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=43249155468&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/07407700600956337
DO - 10.1080/07407700600956337
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:43249155468
SN - 0740-770X
VL - 16
SP - 369
EP - 383
JO - Women and Performance
JF - Women and Performance
IS - 3
ER -