Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Housewife"”.
-
Nurturing transitions: Housewife organizations in (colonial) Indonesia, 1900-1972
<p>From 1900-1972, housewife organizations in the Netherlands Indies and Indonesia assisted the population of the archipelago in adapting to the political upheaval that attended Indonesia's national liberation from the Netherlands. Under the Ethical Policy (1900-1942), the Association of Housewives …
-
PRISM: a consumer information processing model for housewife decision-making
This thesis describes a test of the applicability of a model developed from a qualitative study of a market for consumer nondurables to two other markets for consumer non-durables. The model was developed to explain the effect of public relations information on housewives 1 buying decisions. The …
-
Representations of Housewife Identity in BBC Home Front Radio Broadcasts, 1939-1945
While British food policy during the Second World War was a resounding success, it relied on and reinforced traditional gender roles. An equal shares model for food control provided a sense of national solidarity, but housewives were still represented as inferior to men. <p>This thesis examines …
-
“The Smallest Housewife in the Grass”: Women, Poetry, and American Botanical Culture
<p>My dissertation examines the ways in which American Victorian flora and garden culture and the amateur botany movement influenced and circumscribed American poetry by women from the late Transcendental period to the paleo-Modern period. Delineating an ecofeminist tradition, as well as human and …
-
'Not just a housewife': Gender, Class, and Labour in the New Economy of Urban India
… trajectory of getting married and being ‘just a housewife’. Conscious of their lack of capital, they undertake skills training and mould their ‘habitus’ to mediate belonging in the new economy. However, these negotiations accrue costs over time, resulting in their movement in and out of …
-
From housewife to domestic goddess and beyond: an exploration into the significance of women’s role as food providers in a contemporary Irish context
This thesis is centrally concerned with issues of gender equality in relation to food work in families, in the context of social change in contemporary Ireland. Through the lens of food work it traces how this work as a specific aspect of gendered roles has evolved historically and is enacted in …
-
The French Chef and the Cold War: Julia Child and the Mask of Contained Domesticity
… and conforming, threatening and safe, and housewife and feminist, and in doing so, was able to create a new cooking methodology for Americans who, historically, have a disconnected relationship toward food in general. Using Child's reactions to Cold War mentalities, I demonstrate how Child …
-
What! Is This the Kitchen?: Domestic Advice and the Market for a Model Kitchen, 1841-1959
… the user, whom these parties assumed was a white housewife with some access to domestic servants or labor-saving devices, related to the sources she used and likely trusted to guide her decision-making in the kitchen. In the middle of the 19th century and just after the Civil War, this source was …
-
If This Is a "Real" Housewife, Who Are All These Women Around Me?: An Examination of The Real Housewives of Atlanta and the Persistence of Historically Stereotypical Images of Black Women in Popular Reality Television
Stereotypical images of blacks have persisted throughout multiple forms of media for decades, with one of the most recent arenas being reality television programming. This study examines the Bravo Television network series The Real Housewives of Atlanta to consider the impact of reality television …
-
Playboys, Single Girls, and Sexual Rebels: Sexual Politics 1950-1965: A Trilogy of Significant Developments.
… culture left women struggling to merge the housewife archetype of the Cold War era with changing attitudes toward sexuality. Because of these cultural shifts, the developments that dominate the research presented here are; first, the changing elements in the lives of the women who pass …
-
Social Influences on the Female in the Novels of Thomas Hardy.
… stereotypes of women: the proper, submissive housewife or the rebellious, independent dreamer. Hardy does not demonstrate how women should be, but rather how society pressures women to conform to the accepted image. Hardy progresses from subtly criticizing society, as seen in The Return of the …
-
Bernard Shaw's Conception of the "Womanly" Woman
… the traditional concept of woman as mother and housewife in The Second Sex, The Feminine Mystique, and The Illusion of Eve, while Phyllis McGinley, on the other hand, has celebrated the glory of the homemaker in Sixpence in Her Shoe. | It is apparent, that in the latter part of the twentieth …
-
GOOD WIVES: A STUDY IN ROLE DEFINITION IN NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND, 1650-1750
… the distinct and often competing roles of housewife and deputy husband, suggesting that it was not the work which wives performed which mattered so much as the social context of that work. Although the ability to at least temporarily perform male work was a key responsibility of wives, …
-
Social discourse in the media interpretation of Christiane Pflug's doll paintings
… reviewers establish the painter as a mother and housewife, suggesting that she produces in a domestic sphere, thus removing her from a gallery context. At the same time, they connect Christiane Pflug to the painted image of the black and white dolls which are shown in an interior environment and …
-
Why EU Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Fail in Italy: A Feminist Legal Analysis
… encourages the traditional gendered roles of the housewife and the breadwinner. The following study is a theoretical analysis of the Parental Leave Directive and the potential domestic influences that may prevent Italy from progressing socially towards gender equality. This study looks at the work …
-
Life choices : university-educated mothers in a Japanese suburb
… the paid work available to mothers is so-called 'housewife's part-time work', which does not require any special skills or abilities. In addition, socialisation of compliant mothers is one of the main aims of community activities organised by local government. Nevertheless, it cannot be said that …
-
A Collection of Prose
… in a darkly comedic tale of an affluent suburban housewife named Kate. Torn apart by the weight of her seemingly perfect life, she embarks on an unexpected journey to reclaim the intimacy and connection with her husband she so desperately craves. Through Kate's misadventure and poor choices, this …
-
Gender at the Margins: Contradictions of Masculinity and Femininity in a Bolivian Barrio Marginal
… class mobility, wherein the role of nonworking ""housewife"" may signal increased status for the household at the expense of a woman's economic leverage. I also discuss the ways in which gender roles and expectations are shaped and enacted in different social contexts, and explore various paths …
-
Citizen Professionals: College Women, Care Work, and the Transformation of Middle Class Subjectivity in Post-Bubble Japan
… lady) and the subsequent life of the full-time housewife. This dissertation thus captures a pivotal moment of the transformation of gendered professionalism: from one supported by normative corporate and family membership to another by credentials. This dissertation also argues that young …
Page 1 of 2