Another Modernism : Home Economics and the Design of Domestic Space in the US, 1900-1960

an average American homemaker. The book argues that the home economists' focus on tactility, the user's corporeality, movement, access, preferences, and her engagement in the design process, constituted an alternative model of modern architecture - a popular and largely rural modernism centered on the specificity of the female user and her personal experience of the domestic interior.Based on little-known archival material, and with an emphasis on mostly female researchers, designers, and users/occupants, "Another Modernism "will appeal to architects, design historians, and anyone interested in gender, women's and disability studies, as well as non-visual approaches to design. [Publisher's Text]