Oregon Humanities is a journal of ideas and perspectives published twice a year by the Oregon Council for the Humanities. Each issue includes essays and articles that explore a particular theme from a variety of perspectives, broadening the ways in which readers think about a subject and providing a basis for further thoughtful discussion.
Oregon Humanities, a journal of ideas and perspectives about the humanities, is published biannually by the Oregon Council for the Humanities, 812 SW Washington Street, Suite 225, Portland, Oregon 97205.
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American Domesticity. From How-to Manual to Hollywood Melodrama by Kathleen McHugh (1999)
Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer (2002)
"The Care Crisis" by Ruth Rosen, in the Nation, March 12, 2007
Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel by Nancy Armstrong (1987)
Dwell magazine
Etsy: Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
The Feminine Mistake, by Leslie Bennetts (2007)
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1963)
Geography of Home: Writing on Where We Live by Akiko Busch (1999)
Get Crafty: Hip Home Ec by Jean Railla (2004)
The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg (1999)
Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski (1986)
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendleson (1999)
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981)
House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live by Winifred Gallagher (2006)
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life by James Deetz (1977)
"Just a Housewife." The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America by Glenna Matthews (1987)
The Little Lucky: A Family Geography by Gail Wells (2007)
Mask of Motherhood by Susan Maushart (1999)
Maternal Desire by Daphne de Marneffe (2004)
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein (1977)
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety by Judith Warner (2005)
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard (1964)
Practice of Home: Biography of a House by Charles Goodrich (2004)
The Price of Motherhood by Joan Crittenden (2001)
Readymade magazine
"Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy" by Nancy Fraser in Habermas and the Public Sphere (1992)
The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton by Kathryn Hughes (2006)
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere by Juergen Habermas (1989)
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (1899)
To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife by Caitlin Flanagan (2006)
The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars by Miriam Peskowitz (2005)
Toward a New Architecture by Le Corbusier (1986)
Published in the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of Oregon Humanities.
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