Interwar Appliances

  • Rachele Dini

    Press/Media: Press / Media

    Description

    What can refrigerators, vacuums, stoves, and other appliances tell us about class, labor, race, and gender in the 1920s and '30s and beyond? Apparently quite a bit, as Rachele Dini discusses in this episode. Rachele is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at Roehampton University and the author of Consumerism, Waste and Re-use in Twentieth-century Fiction: Legacies of the Avant-Garde (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and 'All-Electric' Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945-2020 (Bloomsbury, 2021). Here, she discusses interwar appliances alongside contemporary advertisements and examples from Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein. 

    Period11 Mar 2022

    Media contributions

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    Media contributions

    • TitleInterwar Appliances
      Degree of recognitionInternational
      Media name/outletStories from the Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945
      Media typeWeb
      Duration/Length/Size60 minutes
      Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
      Date11/03/22
      DescriptionA one-hour podcast episode about interwar appliances - in literature, culture, advertising, and more - focused on the US but branching out into the UK as well
      Producer/AuthorMichael McCluskey
      URLhttps://audio.buzzsprout.com/7kwqqp0hnva1161s3mzyrv5dk7o3?response-content-disposition=inline&
      PersonsRachele Dini
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    Keywords

    • appliances
    • domesticity
    • housework
    • 1910s
    • 1920s
    • 1930s
    • 1940s
    • Second World War
    • Taylorism
    • Fordism
    • efficiency
    • domestic work
    • feminism
    • white supremacy
    • technology
    • history of domestic technology
    • modernist literature
    • modernist architecture
    • modernist design
    • modernist culture
    • Virginia Woolf
    • British modernism
    • US modernism
    • Gertrude Stein
    • Aldous Huxley
    • Brave New World
    • To the Lighthouse
    • Sunbeam Mixmaster
    • sex toys
    • vibrators
    • gender relations
    • gender inequality
    • women's history
    • history of the home
    • kitchen
    • vacuum cleaners
    • refrigerators
    • advertising
    • heteronormativity
    • homosexuality
    • slavery
    • servants
    • servant problem
    • design history
    • consumerism
    • luxury
    • mass production
    • mass market
    • fascism
    • futurity

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