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Domestic occupations : spatial rhetorics and women's work / Jessica Enoch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Enoch, Jessica, author.
- Series:
- Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.
- Studies in rhetorics and feminisms
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--History.
- Sex role.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Employment--Social aspects.
- Home economics--Social aspects.
- Home economics.
- Feminism.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- This feminist rhetorical history explores women's complex and changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry into the workplace.Author Jessica Enoch examines the spatial rhetorics that defined the home in the mid- to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers how its construction and reconstruction--from.
- Contents:
- Contending with home: spatial rhetorics and women's work
- From prison to home: spatial rhetorics regender the nineteenth-century school
- The domestic scientist's home experiment: spatial rhetorics and professional ethos
- The motherless home: working mothers, emotive spatial rhetorics, and the World War II childcare center
- Home work: spatial rhetorics and feminist rhetorical scholarship.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-3717-7
- OCLC:
- 1117654489
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