Her Dream Home: Domesticity and Gender in Advertising in Arts & Architecture

Díez Martínez, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9504-9071 (2021). Her Dream Home: Domesticity and Gender in Advertising in Arts & Architecture. "Cuaderno de Notas" (n. 22); pp. 72-89. ISSN 1138-1590. https://doi.org/10.20868/cn.2021.4748.

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Title: Her Dream Home: Domesticity and Gender in Advertising in Arts & Architecture
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Item Type: Article
Título de Revista/Publicación: Cuaderno de Notas
Date: 1 July 2021
ISSN: 1138-1590
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Freetext Keywords: Advertising; Domesticity; Gender; Postwar America; Single-family homes; Publicidad; domesticidad; género; posguerra; vivienda unifamiliar
Faculty: E.T.S. Arquitectura (UPM)
Department: Composición Arquitectónica
UPM's Research Group: Análisis y Documentación de Arquitectura, Diseño, Moda & Sociedad
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Abstract

Abstract

In the United States, with the end of World War II, a cultural and territorial model based on the suburban lifestyle took root. Women had taken an active role during the conflict, but postwar American society returned them to the background, restricting them to the care of family and home. The domestic space became again a distinctly female ecosystem. From a gender perspective this article explores how the discourse on housewives and domesticity was expressed in the specialized press, particularly in advertisements published in Arts & Architecture. It tries to show how advertising contributed to the association drawn between women and the domestic sphere, and in particular to the idea of the kitchen as an inherently feminine space. Women were mostly assigned an ornamental role as passive consumers, but occasionally they were portrayed as experts capable of instructing architects on how to design the home.

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El final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial consolidó en Estados Unidos un modelo cultural y territorial basado en el estilo de vida suburbano. Aunque las mujeres habían tenido un papel activo duran­te el conflicto, la sociedad estadounidense de posguerra las relegó a una posición secundaria limitada a las tareas de cuidado familiar y del hogar, por lo que el espacio doméstico se convirtió en un ecosistema netamente femenino. El objetivo de este artículo consiste en estudiar cómo se estructuró este discurso en la prensa especializada utilizando los anuncios de la revista Arts & Architecture. Se muestra cómo la publicidad contribuyó a la asociación entre la mujer y el ámbito doméstico, y en particular a definir la cocina como un espacio inherentemente femenino. A las mujeres se les asignó principalmente un papel ornamental como consumidoras pasivas, aunque ocasionalmente también aparecían como expertas capaces de instruir a los arquitectos sobre cómo diseñar una casa.

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Item ID: 69718
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/69718/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:69718
DOI: 10.20868/cn.2021.4748
Official URL: http://polired.upm.es/index.php/cuadernodenotas/ar...
Deposited by: Daniel Díez Martínez
Deposited on: 10 Feb 2022 06:51
Last Modified: 10 Feb 2022 06:51
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