Housewives of Japangives voice to the lives and thoughts of 'professional housewives', a salient category of Japanese women. Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally constructed …
Shows how new, supposedly time-saving inventions have both increased the workload and improved the standard of living.
Shows how new, supposedly time-saving inventions have both increased the workload and improved the standard of living.
Shows how new, supposedly time-saving inventions have both increased the workload and improved the standard of living.
Shows how new, supposedly time-saving inventions have both increased the workload and improved the standard of living.
Shows how new, supposedly time-saving inventions have both increased the workload and improved the standard of living.
"Dona Petrona C. de Gandulfo (c. 1896-1992) reigned as Argentina's preeminent domestic and culinary expert from the 1930s through the 1980s. An enduring culinary icon thanks to her magazine columns, radio programs, and television shows, she was likely second only to Eva Peron in…
From curtains to clothing, from around-the-world parties to arts and crafts, this work presents different perspectives on the United States in the world by shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to women.
What do new technologies taste like? A growing number of contemporary artists are working with food, live materials and scientific processes, in order to explore and challenge the ways in which manipulation of biological materials informs our cooking and eating.'Bioart', or biol…