Historicizing Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption and Identity from the 1900s to 1970s

Synopsis

This Volume Examines Issues Of Taste, Media And Lifestyle From A Historical Perspective. The Contributors Seek To Show How 'lifestyle' As A Concept And As A Set Of Practices Has Evolved Over Time, Progressively Over-writing 'tradition'. Focusing Specifically On The 1900s To 1970s The Volume Provides Empirical Evidence On Key Debates In The Field From A Cross-national Perspective Between The Uk And Us. The Case Studies, Including Good Housekeeping And Playboy, Explore The Continuities And Discontinuities Between The Past And Present To Provide A Better Understanding About The Representation Of Lifestyle And Its Relationship To The Self. Analysis Of How Ideas About Lifestyle Have Been Mediated In Particular Times And Places Is Also Provided. The Volume Makes A Significant Contribution To This Growing Field And Is Of Interest To Academics And Students In Media And Cultural Studies, Communication Studies, Cultural History, And Sociology.--jacket. Towards A History Of Lifestyle / David Bell And Joanne Hollows -- Science And Spells : Cooking, Lifestyle And Domestic Femininities In British Good Housekeeping In The Inter-war Period / Joanne Hollows -- The Restaurant Guide As Romance : From Raymond Postgate To Florence White / Janet Floyd -- Presenting The Black Middle Class : John H. Johnson And Ebony Magazine, 1945-1974 / Jason Chambers -- The Politics Of Playboy : Lifestyle, Sexuality And Non-conformity In American Cold War Culture / Mark Jancovich -- Rapture Of The Deep : Leisure, Lifestyle And The Lure Of Sixties Scuba / Bill Osgerby -- Lifestyle Print Culture And The Mediation Of Everyday Life : From Dispersing Images To Caring Texts / Sam Binkley -- Depression And Recovery : Self-help And America In The 1930s / Sue Currell -- Pushing Pneus: Michelin's Advertising Of Lifestyle In Pre-world War I France / Stephen L. Harp -- Creating Modern Tendencies : The Symbolic Economics Of Furnishing / Tracey Potts. Edited By David Bell, Joanne Hollows. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.