Biting the Dust The Joys of Housework

Name: Biting the Dust The Joys of Housework
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ISBN: 9780312220839

ISBN-10: 0312220839

ISBN-13: 9780312220839

Edition: 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Margaret Horsfield

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In this witty look at our obsession with cleaning, Margaret Horsfield confronts her own dirt demons and scours the social, historical, literary and psychological nooks and crannies of the world of household chores. Through historical research, countless interviews with people and an analysis of characters from novels and advertising, Horsfield presents such memorable personalities as the woman who sends her small daughter to walk around other people’s houses in white tights to check for dirt and the mother who, upon her son’s suicide, sheds not a tear but stays up all night frantically polishing her already gleaming hardwood floors. From demented television housewives to the redoubtable…

Book details

List price: $13.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 4/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Margaret Horsfield is the author of several books including Voices from the Sound (Salal Books, 2008) and Cougar Annie's Garden (Salal Books, 1999), which won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. She has also worked in radio and print journalism. She lives in Nanaimo, BC.



I read this book on summer vacation and I thought it was one of the funniest and well-written cultural histories I'd read in a long time


Then, I went home and cleaned my shower. Denial and Defense


Dirty Work Afoot


Mothers and Mentors


Happy and Glorious


Maids and Ladies


Public Concern


Germs


Movers and Shakers


Improvement and Irony


Buyers and Sellers


Search and Destroy


Purge and Purify


Clean Freaks and Crazies


Looking for Mr. Clean


Pros and Cons


Flappers and Scrubbers