The Kitchen

The Kitchen

As the most private, family-centered, and multi-purpose space of the home, this room reveals the many expectations associated with the “woman’s sphere” or the home. Cooking, cleaning, washing, caring for child illness, and more would have all taken place within the kitchen. Not only would these responsibilities be performed by mothers, but “extended mothers”, daughters, and hired domestic servants. A space utilized by many outside the role of “woman of the house”, the kitchen simultaneously embodies frenzied maternity and problematizes the ideologies of the maternal advice literature.

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