Ruth Oldenziel
Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users
- ISBN 13:
- 9780262516136
- author:
- Ruth Oldenziel
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- MIT Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 432
- Dimensions:
- 6.60 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 0.90 (d)
- Genre:
- Food - Sociocultural Aspects, Sociology - General & Miscellaneous, International Relations - General & Miscellaneous, Soviet History - Political Aspects, 20th Century American History - Cold War, Decorating - General & Miscellaneous, Home - General &
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
The kitchen as a symbol and material reality in the Cold War era. In 1958, US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev engaged in a famous "kitchen debate", highlighting the significance of domestic technology in politics. This book explores the kitchen as a complex technological artifact, examining how social actors in Europe shaped its development. The home became a site for negotiating the intersection of ideology and practice, with women users playing a key role in advising producers from a consumer's perspective. The book considers topics such as Soviet consumers' responses to American-style kitchens, the Frankfurter Küche, a European modernist kitchen design, and British state-subsidized kitchen designs that were mistaken for luxury American products. Through essays illustrated by period photographs, Cold War Kitchen sheds light on the ways in which technological innovations were constructed and domesticated in post-war Europe.
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