附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 'Something that little bit better' : suburban modernity, prudential marriage, and self-improvement -- Help for housewives : domestic service -- Getting and spending, identity and consumption -- Legacies : the question of 'home' and women's modernity.
摘要:This work argues that home and private life have been crucial spaces in which the interrelations of class and gender have been significant in the formation of modern feminine identities.