“The Right Step towards a Woman’s Satisfaction?”: Washing Machine as a New Piece of Technology and the Construction of the Role of Women
“The Right Step towards a Woman’s Satisfaction?”: Washing Machine as a New Piece of Technology and the Construction of the Role of Women
Author(s): Polona SitarSubject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: Washing machine; housework; gender; technological development; socialism
Summary/Abstract: This article discusses political implications of the fact that technological development and consumption in socialism are nowdays shown as a failed project of the socialist production. This generates a view that the Yugoslav socialism was never a part modernitiy.
Journal: Narodna umjetnost - Hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku
- Issue Year: 52/2015
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 143-171
- Page Count: 29
