It was another skin: The kitchen as home for Australian post-war immigrant women

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It was another skin: The kitchen as home for Australian post-war immigrant women

This article examines the importance of the kitchen for immigrant women who arrived in Australia in the late 1940s and 1950s. Using oral history interviews with 27 immigrant women I examine the multiple and overlapping ways in which they 'make' home. Women construct home through the kitche...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Supski, Sian
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2006
Subjects:	kitchens post-war Western Australia gender immigrant women
Online Access:	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09663690600573635 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44508

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