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Culture as Comfort
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Sarah J. Mahler
Categories: Culture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Prentice Hall

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Culture and Comfort
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Katherine Grier
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-03 - Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

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In Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian mi
Comfort in Contemporary Culture
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Dorothee Birke
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-31 - Publisher: transcript Verlag

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Comfort is a prominent and highly loaded concept, as popular discourses on cosy environments, safe spaces, but also the importance of ›getting out of your com
Standing in the Need
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Katherine E. Browne
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Standing in the Need presents an intimate account of an African American family’s ordeal after Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm struck, this family of one
The Invention of Comfort
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: John E. Crowley
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Definitions of comfort changed over time, the author shows, and men and women sometimes interpreted comfort differently. He begins with a description of the mat