Historicizing lifestyle [electronic resource] : mediating taste, consumption and identity from the 1900s to 1970s / edited by David Bell, Joanne Hollows.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.Description: x, 178 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.09182/10904 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ2042 .H57 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Towards a history of lifestyle / David Bell and Joanne Hollows -- Science and spells : cooking, lifestyle and domestic femininities in British Good Housekeeping in the inter-war period / Joanne Hollows -- The restaurant guide as romance : from Raymond Postgate to Florence White / Janet Floyd -- Presenting the black middle class : John H. Johnson and Ebony magazine, 1945-1974 / Jason Chambers -- The politics of Playboy : lifestyle, sexuality and non-conformity in American Cold War culture / Mark Jancovich -- Rapture of the deep : leisure, lifestyle and the lure of sixties scuba / Bill Osgerby -- Lifestyle print culture and the mediation of everyday life : from dispersing images to caring texts / Sam Binkley -- Depression and recovery : self-help and America in the 1930s / Sue Currell -- Pushing pneus: Michelin's advertising of lifestyle in pre-World War I France / Stephen L. Harp -- Creating "modern tendencies" : the symbolic economics of furnishing / Tracey Potts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards a history of lifestyle / David Bell and Joanne Hollows -- Science and spells : cooking, lifestyle and domestic femininities in British Good Housekeeping in the inter-war period / Joanne Hollows -- The restaurant guide as romance : from Raymond Postgate to Florence White / Janet Floyd -- Presenting the black middle class : John H. Johnson and Ebony magazine, 1945-1974 / Jason Chambers -- The politics of Playboy : lifestyle, sexuality and non-conformity in American Cold War culture / Mark Jancovich -- Rapture of the deep : leisure, lifestyle and the lure of sixties scuba / Bill Osgerby -- Lifestyle print culture and the mediation of everyday life : from dispersing images to caring texts / Sam Binkley -- Depression and recovery : self-help and America in the 1930s / Sue Currell -- Pushing pneus: Michelin's advertising of lifestyle in pre-World War I France / Stephen L. Harp -- Creating "modern tendencies" : the symbolic economics of furnishing / Tracey Potts.

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