%0 Journal Article
%T Risk as a Window to Agency: A Case Study of Three Decorators
%J Journal of interior design
%D 2008
%A Blossom, Nancy H.
%A Turpin, John C.
%V 34
%N 1
%P 1-13
%X This paper explores the idea of “risk” by examining the role of three women in interior design in the twentieth century (Elsie de Wolfe, 1865–1950; Dorothy Draper, 1888–1969; and Sister Parish, 1929–1994). Women’s roles as arbiters of taste were consistent with the social construction of the female gender at the turn of the century; that these roles involved risk—the perception of possible loss or injury—is, for the most part, overlooked by social historians.<p />
%G 
%I John Wiley and Sons
%@ 1071-7641
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-1668.2008.00003.x