The saturated world
Subtitle: aesthetic meaning, intimate objects, women's lives, 1890-1940
By: Beverly Gordon
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Women -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Women -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Women -- Recreation -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Recreation -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Amusements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Amusements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Handicraft -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Handicraft -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: Explores the way middle-class American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries added meaning to their lives through their "domestic amusements"--leisure pursuits that took place in and were largely focused on the home. Women elaborated on their everyday tasks and responsibilities with these amusements thus cultivating a heightened, aesthetically charged "saturated" state and created self-contained enchanted worlds.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-262) and index
Table of contents: title: The meaning of the saturated world; title: The paper doll house; title: Parties and party givers; title: Dressing-up as embodied amusement; title: Iconic dolls and household helpers; title: Collecting