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American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama
American Domesticity From HowTo Manual to Hollywood Melodrama Author:Kathleen Anne McHugh American Domesticity considers representations of domesticity and domestic labor over the last two centuries in didactic, cinematic, and feminist texts, tracing key moments in the construction of an idea whose political power and effectivity in our national imagination cannot be overestimated--that of normative domestic femininity.