Modern Kitchen in the Pampas: Home Mechanization and Domestic Work
Modern Kitchen in the Pampas: Home Mechanization and Domestic Work
”This article explores the emergence of different kitchen models in Argentinean popular media during the second half of the twentieth century. Specifically, it observes the ways in which the kitchen was represented in women’s magazines and how these representations were re-signified in the life stories of both men and women who witnessed and staged the mechanization of the home...This text shows how experiences of housework and kitchen mechanization were marked by deep social and gender inequalities. It also shows the significance domestic work gained in the promotion of new modes of living and new standards of consumption.”