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

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
1 Towards a History of Lifestyle......Page 12
2 Science and Spells: Cooking, Lifestyle and Domestic Femininities in British Good Housekeeping in the Inter-war Period......Page 32
3 The Restaurant Guide as Romance: From Raymond Postgate to Florence White......Page 52
4 Presenting the Black Middle Class: John H. Johnson and Ebony Magazine, 1945-1974......Page 65
5 The Politics of Playboy: Lifestyle, Sexuality and Non-conformity in American Cold War Culture......Page 81
6 Rapture of the Deep: Leisure, Lifestyle and the Lure of Sixties Scuba......Page 99
7 Lifestyle Print Culture and the Mediation of Everyday Life: From Dispersing Images to Caring Texts......Page 119
8 Depression and Recovery: Self-Help and America in the 1930s......Page 142
9 Pushing Pneus: Michelin’s Advertising of Lifestyle in Pre-World War I France......Page 156
10 Creating ‘Modern Tendencies’: The Symbolic Economics of Furnishing......Page 167
C......Page 184
F......Page 185
L......Page 186
P......Page 187
U......Page 188
Y......Page 189