Punch Pourin' and Plate Passin': The Changing Domestic Roles of American Middle Class Women

This thesis research document is one of two documents used to describe a conceptual exhibition design. This exhibit at The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. shows women at the vanguard of the changing domestic environment; creatively contributing to the rapid domestic transformations occurring in the 20th century. This exhibit will show women and use the home as a lenses to both observe and document greater social change. Included are historic and contemporary objects, which represent products used in a domestic setting. Separate didactic and immersive spaces will be created to teach and show visitors a range from the banalities to the urgent actualities of domestic life in the last half of the 20th century.

Author

• Knabel, Lauren

Language

• en

Keyword

• Feminism
• Domesticity
• Gender Roles
• Visual Culture

Date created

• 2013

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Exhibition Design

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Brady, Philip

Committee Member(s)

• Brown, Clare

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/th83kz544