From rugs to riches

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"This book provides a researched study of ideas about women, men, housework, consumption, and modernity. It contrasts the virtual reality presented by advertisements with the important qualitative changes in household appliances and how they affected everyday life and gender roles." "The author examines a broad range of issues encompassing the transformation of household appliances from luxuries to necessities, the threat of consumer debt, men and housework, women and technology, and labour and leisure in the modern household." "This book represents a contribution to the following areas: material culture, German history, women's history, sociology, media/cultural studies and anthropology."--Jacket