Dream stuff: The postwar home and the Australian housewife, 1940-60

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 251-272

  Lloyd, Justine ^a   Johnson, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMINISM; GENDER ROLE; SOCIAL HISTORY; WOMENS STATUS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 1842688000     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d422     Document Type: Article

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