In Martha We Trust? The Cultural Significance of the Martha Stewart Phenomenon
Description:
The thesis examines the relationship between Martha Stewart's rendition of domesticity and a broader cultural trend of the late 1990s U.S. domestic retreatism. It argues that the mode of construction and representation of the "domestic dream" in Stewart's programs cannot be examined outside of such concepts as class and ethnicity, whose understanding depends on the cultural, social, and political context of a given era, a context, in which they become transparent as aspects of the Western (whit…
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Date:
August 2003
Creator:
Chmielewska, Katarzyna