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How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940 by Thomas C. Hubka (review)
Ist Teil von
Technology and Culture, 2021-07, Vol.62 (3), p.953-954
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
A three-fixture bathroom, combining a toilet, sink, and bathtub, would become the emblem of modernity for a "new middle class" in the 1940s. The addition of a dining room suggests the practice of formal dining, while the similar size of the kitchen enabled informal dining, impossible in Europe's efficient kitchen designs. [...]he does not discuss the female forces driving the reform: the sanitarians, the many local women's committees promoting sanitation and efficiency in the home, the impact of domestic science classes on girls, or the early sale of cheap house plans by the popular Ladies' Home Journal, which likely had an impact on the range of prefabricated wooden houses available to local builders and contractors.