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Informationen zum Autor Nicole C. Rudolph is Academic Director of the Honors College at Adelphi University in New York, where she is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She also serves on the Editorial Board of French Politics, Culture & Society . Klappentext After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects', planners', and residents' understandings of modernity. This volume identifies the "right to comfort" as an invention of the postwar period and suggests that the modern mass home played a vital role in shaping new expectations for well-being and happiness. Zusammenfassung After World War II! France embarked on a national project of modernization! which included the development of mass housing. At Home in Postwar France reveals how modernizers saw the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building! and identifies the emergence of a "right to comfort" that shaped new expectations for well-being. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Modern Homes for a Modern Nation Chapter 1. Building Homes, Building a Nation: State Experiments in Modern Living, 1945-1952 Chapter 2. Designing for the Classless Society: Modernist Architects and the "Art of Living" Chapter 3. The Salon des Arts Ménagers: Teaching Women How to Make the Modern Home Part II: Mass Homes for a Changing Society Chapter 4. Housing for the Greatest Number: The Housing Crisis and the Cellule d'Habitation, 1953-1958 Chapter 5. "Who is the Author of a Dwelling?" From User to Inhabitant, 1959-1961 Chapter 6. Beyond the Functionalist Cell to the Urban Fabric, 1966-1973 Conclusion Bibliography Index ...
