Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives: Ghosts & Glamour

by Samantha Holland

Book Overview

This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives. It focuses on the non-mainstream subculture of vintage clothes and lifestyle, specifically that of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and asks how those engaged in the culture place themselves within the gendered and classed contexts of these eras. As a result, it also identifies the tensions involved in these identities connected to a past that offered little gain for women and narrow gender...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349846813
• ISBN13: 9781349846818
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"