Roughing it in the Suburbs

Author： Valerie J. Korinek  

Publisher： University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9781442627772

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Language： ENG

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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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Contents

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Acknowledgments

1 ‘Lighting Up a Brush Fire’

Part One: Historicizing Production and Consumption

2 ‘A Closet Feminist Magazine’: (Re)-Making Chatelaine

3 ‘A Faithful Friend and Tonic’: Reading Chatelaine

Part Two: Traditional Fare?

4 ‘Your Best Medium to Sell Women’: Covering and Advertising Chatelaine

5 ‘The Cinderella from Pugwash’: Advice from the Chatelaine Institute

6 ‘Searching for a Plain Gold Band’: Chatelaine Fiction

Part Three: Subverting the Standard

7 ‘How to Live in the Suburbs’: Editorials and Articles in the Fifties

8 ‘Trying to Incite a Revolution’: Editorials and Articles in the Sixties

9 ‘Here in the Lodge’: Chatelaine’s Legacy

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