Kathryn J Oberdeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 680725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn J Oberdeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn J |
| FAMILY NAME | Oberdeck |
| SIGNATURE | OBERDECK K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Of Tubs and Toil: Kohler Workers in an Empire of Hygiene, 1920–2000
This paper examines contests over the intimate and global geographies of domestic hygiene advanced by the Kohler Company, a plumbing-ware manufacturer that promoted “American” standards living in its welfare-capitalist industrial village of Kohler, Wisconsin. Drawing from the approaches of labor history, cultural history, and critical geography, it demonstrates the value of combining these methodologies. The perspectives of Kohler workers on “Ame…
Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin
The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness
Journal Article The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness. By Carrie Tirado Bramen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 380 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-674-00308-X.) Get access Kathryn J. Oberdeck Kathryn J. Oberdeck University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, Septe…
Class, Place, and Gender: Contested Industrial and Domestic Space in Kohler, Wisconsin, USA, 1920–1960
The Kohler company, a family‐owned plumbing manufactory in Wisconsin, USA, known for the ‘garden industrial village’ erected for its workers during the 1910s, managed class relations through a gendered spatial arrangement of its model town. In the 1930s and 1950s, unionists striking at the plant responded by articulating their class alliances within and outside the town in spatial terms that revised the meaning of the place. In the process, the K…
The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914
Journal Article The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884–1914. By Kathryn J. Oberdeck. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 429 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-6060-1.) Get access Eugene McCarraher Eugene McCarraher Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1…
From Model Town to Edge City: Piety, Paternalism, and the Politics of Urban Planning in the United States
Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture
Journal Article Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture. By David E. Nye. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xvi, 224 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-231-11196-7. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-231-11197-5.) Get access Kathryn J. Oberdeck Kathryn J. Oberdeck University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4,…
Contested Cultures of American Refinement: Theatrical Manager Sylvester Poli, His Audiences, and the Vaudeville Industry, 1890-1920
Research Article| October 01 1996 Contested Cultures of American Refinement: Theatrical Manager Sylvester Poli, His Audiences, and the Vaudeville Industry, 1890–1920 Kathryn J. Oberdeck Kathryn J. Oberdeck Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (66): 41–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1996-66-41 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kathryn J. Oberdeck;…
Religion, Culture, and the Politics of Class: Alexander Irvine's Mission to Turn-of-the-Century New Haven
DURING THE FIRST DECADE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, AN IRISHAmerican missionary named Alexander Irvine found in the city of New Haven a formative training ground for his remarkable trajectory between the Protestant pulpit and the vaudeville stage. Born in 1863 to an illiterate Protestant cobbler and his Catholic wife in Ulster, Irvine had journeyed toward America on a path of evangelical self-improvement. Prior to his emigration, this path had led …
Not pink teas”: The Seattle working-class women's movement, 1905–1918
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKathryn J. OberdeckSince I began work on this article, several people have offered valuable research suggestions and comments on early drafts. For suggestions on drafts circulated between 1985 and 1987, I would like particularly to thank Nancy F. Cott, Jacqueline Dirks, Dana Frank, Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Regina Kunzel, David Montgomery, and Catherine Stock
Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture
Journal Article Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture. By David E. Nye. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xvi, 224 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-231-11196-7. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-231-11197-5.) Get access Kathryn J. Oberdeck Kathryn J. Oberdeck University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4,…
Not pink teas”: The Seattle working-class women's movement, 1905–1918
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKathryn J. OberdeckSince I began work on this article, several people have offered valuable research suggestions and comments on early drafts. For suggestions on drafts circulated between 1985 and 1987, I would like particularly to thank Nancy F. Cott, Jacqueline Dirks, Dana Frank, Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Regina Kunzel, David Montgomery, and Catherine Stock
Religion, Culture, and the Politics of Class: Alexander Irvine's Mission to Turn-of-the-Century New Haven
DURING THE FIRST DECADE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, AN IRISHAmerican missionary named Alexander Irvine found in the city of New Haven a formative training ground for his remarkable trajectory between the Protestant pulpit and the vaudeville stage. Born in 1863 to an illiterate Protestant cobbler and his Catholic wife in Ulster, Irvine had journeyed toward America on a path of evangelical self-improvement. Prior to his emigration, this path had led …
Contested Cultures of American Refinement: Theatrical Manager Sylvester Poli, His Audiences, and the Vaudeville Industry, 1890-1920
Research Article| October 01 1996 Contested Cultures of American Refinement: Theatrical Manager Sylvester Poli, His Audiences, and the Vaudeville Industry, 1890–1920 Kathryn J. Oberdeck Kathryn J. Oberdeck Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (66): 41–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1996-66-41 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kathryn J. Oberdeck;…
Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture
Journal Article Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture. By David E. Nye. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xvi, 224 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-231-11196-7. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-231-11197-5.) Get access Kathryn J. Oberdeck Kathryn J. Oberdeck University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4,…
From Model Town to Edge City: Piety, Paternalism, and the Politics of Urban Planning in the United States
Class, Place, and Gender: Contested Industrial and Domestic Space in Kohler, Wisconsin, USA, 1920–1960
The Kohler company, a family‐owned plumbing manufactory in Wisconsin, USA, known for the ‘garden industrial village’ erected for its workers during the 1910s, managed class relations through a gendered spatial arrangement of its model town. In the 1930s and 1950s, unionists striking at the plant responded by articulating their class alliances within and outside the town in spatial terms that revised the meaning of the place. In the process, the K…
The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884-1914
Journal Article The Evangelist and the Impresario: Religion, Entertainment, and Cultural Politics in America, 1884–1914. By Kathryn J. Oberdeck. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 429 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-6060-1.) Get access Eugene McCarraher Eugene McCarraher Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1…
The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness
Journal Article The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness. By Carrie Tirado Bramen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 380 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-674-00308-X.) Get access Kathryn J. Oberdeck Kathryn J. Oberdeck University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, Septe…
Archives of the Unbuilt Environment: Documents and Discourses of Imagined Space in Twentieth-Century Kohler, Wisconsin
Of Tubs and Toil: Kohler Workers in an Empire of Hygiene, 1920–2000
This paper examines contests over the intimate and global geographies of domestic hygiene advanced by the Kohler Company, a plumbing-ware manufacturer that promoted “American” standards living in its welfare-capitalist industrial village of Kohler, Wisconsin. Drawing from the approaches of labor history, cultural history, and critical geography, it demonstrates the value of combining these methodologies. The perspectives of Kohler workers on “Ame…
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