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Historicizing Lifestyle
Mediating Taste, Consumption and Identity from the 1900s to 1970s
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- English
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eBook - ePub
Historicizing Lifestyle
Mediating Taste, Consumption and Identity from the 1900s to 1970s
About this book
Lifestyles have a history, and lifestyle media is fundamentally implicated in this history. This original volume examines issues of taste, media and lifestyle from the 1900s to 1970s, providing a wealth of empirical evidence and debate from varied international perspectives. Including examples as diverse as 'Good Housekeeping' and 'Playboy', it explores the continuities and discontinuities between the past and present to provide a better understanding of the representation of lifestyle and its relationship to the self. The volume demonstrates how ideas about gender, nation and 'race' problematize taken-for-granted assumptions about lifestyle, with particular emphasis on the new middle classes in the US. The book also examines the role of advertising and marketing in mediating ideas about lifestyle, the role of material culture in the construction of cultural hierarchies and the positioning of social groups within wider cartographies of taste. The volume makes a significant contribution to this growing field and will interest academics and students in media and cultural studies, communication studies, cultural history and sociology.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Towards a History of Lifestyle
- 2 Science and Spells: Cooking, Lifestyle and Domestic Femininities in British Good Housekeeping in the Inter-war Period
- 3 The Restaurant Guide as Romance: From Raymond Postgate to Florence White
- 4 Presenting the Black Middle Class: John H. Johnson and Ebony Magazine, 1945-1974
- 5 The Politics of Playboy: Lifestyle, Sexuality and Non-conformity in American Cold War Culture
- 6 Rapture of the Deep: Leisure, Lifestyle and the Lure of Sixties Scuba
- 7 Lifestyle Print Culture and the Mediation of Everyday Life: From Dispersing Images to Caring Texts
- 8 Depression and Recovery: Self-Help and America in the 1930s
- 9 Pushing Pneus: Michelin’s Advertising of Lifestyle in Pre-World War I France
- 10 Creating ‘Modern Tendencies’: The Symbolic Economics of Furnishing
- Index
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