Abstract
Dedication Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Hung Out to Dry: Laundry Advertising and the American Woman, 1890-1920 by Kristi Branham Chapter 2: Snapshot Photography, Women's Domestic Work and the Kodak Moment 1910s-60s by Nicola Goc Chapter 3: From Chimney Sweeps to House Elves: Housework, Subject Formation, Agency, and British Children's Fantasy Literature 1863-2007 by Hannah Swamidoss Chapter 4: Appliance Reliance: Domestic Technologies and the Depersonalization of Housework in Postwar American Speculative Fiction by Andrea Krafft Chapter 5: Making Easier the Lives of our Housewives: Visions of Domestic Technology in the Kitchen Debate by Nicole Williams Barnes Chapter 6: Supernatural Housework: Magic and Domesticity in 1960s Television by Kristi Rowan Humphreys Chapter 7: Every Day Should Be Like Sunny Weather: Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon Channel Carol Channing to Resolve the Politics of Housework for a New Generation of Parents by Mimi Choi Chapter 8: Spaces of Masculinity and Work: Bringing Men Back into the Domestic Sphere by Elizabeth Patton Chapter 9: Kauering Home in Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet by Gust A. Yep and Ryan Lescure Chapter 10: Good Luck Raising the Modern Family: Analyzing Portrayals of Sexual Division of Labor and Socioeconomic Class on Family Sitcoms by Nancy E. Bressler Chapter 11: No Longer Whistling While You Work? Reanimating the Cult of Domesticity in The Incredibles by Christopher Holliday Chapter 12: I Couldn't Do It without Her: Big Love, Sister Wives, and Housework by Rita M. Jones Suggested Reading About the Contributors
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