The Saturated World
The Saturated World

Author: Beverly Gordon

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781572335424

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Explores the way middle-class American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries added meaning to their lives through their "domestic amusements"--leisure pursuits that took place in and were largely focused on the home. Women elaborated on their everyday tasks and responsibilities with these amusements thus cultivating a heightened, aesthetically charged "saturated" state and created self-contained enchanted worlds.

Bazaars and Fair Ladies
Bazaars and Fair Ladies

Author: Beverly Gordon

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781572330146

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Tracing their development from the early 1800s to the present day, Gordon shows how women's fairs have reflected and influenced American culture, including styles of display and presentation, forms of public entertainment, attitudes about consumption and commodities, and perceptions of other cultures and of the past.