| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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The Saturated World: bbbbsthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women's Lives, 1890–1940. By Beverly Gordon. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xii, 273 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-1-57233-542-4.)

In her richly detailed study of the domestic amusements in the lives of women, Beverly Gordon maintains that at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, middle-class women were intensely engaged in a variety of "domestic activities" that are still undervalued, overlooked, and undocumented by scholars examining the history of leisure. Gordon breaks new conceptual ground by arguing that rather than being passive victims of trifling domestic lives, women cultivated a deeply satisfying alternative world intentionally "saturated" in aesthetic, emotional, sensual, and interpersonal meanings. Whether scrapbooking, party-giving, dressing up, dollmaking, or collecting, creative women transformed the ordinary aspects of their everyday lives into magical ones of extraordinary pleasure.

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