Another Modernism

"Targeting an important gap in design history, Another Modernism sheds light on the unacknowledged contribution of home economists to 20th-century modernist design. In analysing the home economists' conception of space, the book argues that their focus on the user's tactility constituted an alternative model of modern architecture - a popular and largely rural modernism which focused on the specificity of the female user and her personal experience of the domestic interior. Based on little-known archival material, and with an emphasis on (mostly) female researchers and users/occupants, Another Modernism will appeal to architects, design historians, and anyone interested in gender, women, and disability studies"--