Historicizing lifestyle
Subtitle: mediating taste, consumption and identity from the 1900s to 1970s
By: edited by David Bell and Joanne Hollows.
Contributors: Bell, David.; Hollows, Joanne.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Lifestyles -- Cross-cultural studies.; Lifestyles -- History -- 20th century.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Towards a history of lifestyle / David Bell and Joanne Hollows; title: Science and spells : cooking, lifestyle and domestic femininities in British good housekeeping in the inter-war period / Joanne Hollows; title: The restaurant guide as romance : from Raymond Postgate to Florence White / Janet Floyd; title: Presenting the black middle class : John H. Johnson and Ebony magazine, 1945-1974 / Jason Chambers; title: The politics of Playboy : lifestyle, sexuality and non-conformity in American Cold War culture / Mark Jancovich; title: Rapture of the deep : leisure, lifestyle and the lure of sixties scuba / Bill Osgerby; title: Lifestyle print culture and the mediation of everyday life : from dispersing images to caring texts / Sam Binkley; title: Depression and recovery : self-help and America in the 1930s / Sue Currell; title: Pushing pneus: Michelin's advertising of lifestyle in pre-World War I France / Stephen L. Harp; title: Creating "modern tendencies" : the symbolic economics of furnishing / Tracey Potts.