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Reading Landscapes: The American Suburbs
Author(s) -
Scanlon Jennifer
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00339.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , scholarship , representation (politics) , homogeneous , race (biology) , class (philosophy) , gender studies , middle class , sociology , aesthetics , psychology , history , art , political science , epistemology , politics , philosophy , physics , law , thermodynamics
Recent scholarship problematizes the dichotomous reading of the American suburb as either middle‐class nirvana or homogeneous wasteland. Suburbs are spaces where race, class, and gender can be read onto landscapes in new and provocative ways. This article explores how suburban history was presented and explored in a gender and women’s studies/history course on the suburbs and their representation in American popular culture.