Roughing it in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties

Valerie Korinek

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Roughing it in the Suburbs

Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties

Valerie Korinek

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2000

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Studies in Gender and History

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Korinek shows that rather than promoting domestic perfection, Chatelaine did not cling to the stereotypes of the era, but instead forged ahead, providing women with a variety of images, ideas, and critiques of women’s role in society.

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Korinek Valerie :

Valerie Korinek is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.

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History Regional and National History North America Canada

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Chapter 1. ‘Lighting Up a Brush Fire’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part One. Historicizing Production and Consumption
Chapter 2. ‘A Closet Feminist Magazine’: (Re)-Making Chatelaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
Chapter 3. ‘A Faithful Friend and Tonic’: Reading Chatelaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
Part Two. Traditional Fare?
Chapter 4. ‘Your Best Medium to Sell Women’: Covering and Advertising Chatelaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
Chapter 5. ‘The Cinderella from Pugwash’: Advice from the Chatelaine Institute Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	178
Chapter 6. ‘Searching for a Plain Gold Band’: Chatelaine Fiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	220
Part Three. Subverting the Standard
Chapter 7. ‘How to Live in the Suburbs’: Editorials and Articles in the Fifties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
Chapter 8. ‘Trying to Incite a Revolution’: Editorials and Articles in the Sixties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	308
Chapter 9. ‘Here in the Lodge’: Chatelaine’s Legacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	366
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447

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December 15, 2000

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9781442627772

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512

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442627772

eBook ISBN: 9781442627772

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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;

Roughing it in the Suburbs

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