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Format: XI, 260 Seiten

ISBN: 9780231166348 , 9780231166355

Series Statement: Gender and culture

Content: Introduction: Doing domesticity -- Shelter writing: desperate housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye -- Behind the curtain: domestic industry in Mary Barton -- Domesticity beyond sentiment: Edith Wharton, decoration, and divorce -- Bad girls of good housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart -- Undocumented houses: histories of dislocation in immigrant fiction -- Domesticity in extremis: homemaking by the unsheltered -- Conclusion: Dwelling-in-traveling, traveling-in-dwelling

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Fraiman, Susan, author Extreme domesticity New York : Columbia University Press, 2016 ISBN 978-0-2315-4375-0

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Frauenliteratur ; Geschlechterrolle ; Häuslichkeit ; Hauswirtschaft ; Geschichte 1897-2007

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Format: 1 online resource : , 14 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780231543750

Series Statement: Gender and Culture Series

Content: Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines elaborated in the context of Victorian poverty, twentieth-century immigration, and new millennial homelessness. Far from being exclusively middle-class, domestic concerns are shown to be all the more urgent and ongoing when shelter is precarious.Fraiman's reformulation frees domesticity from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Fraiman's readings include novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Feinberg, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka; Edith Wharton's classic decorating guide; popular women's magazines; and ethnographic studies of homeless subcultures. Recognizing the labor and know-how needed to produce the space we call "home," Extreme Domesticity vindicates domestic practices and appreciates their centrality to everyday life. At the same time, it remains well aware of domesticity's dark side. Neither a romance of artisanal housewifery nor an apology for conservative notions of home, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Doing Domesticity -- , 1 Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye -- , 2 Behind The Curtain: Domestic Industry in Mary Barton -- , 3 Domesticity Beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce -- , 4 Bad Girls of Good Housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart -- , 5 Undocumented Homes: Histories of Dislocation in Immigrant Fiction -- , 6 Domesticity in Extremis: Homemaking by the Unsheltered -- , Conclusion: Dwelling-in-Traveling, Traveling-in-Dwelling -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/frai16634

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/frai16634

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Format: 1 online resource (278 pages).

ISBN: 0-231-54375-1

Series Statement: Gender and Culture Series

Content: Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines elaborated in the context of Victorian poverty, twentieth-century immigration, and new millennial homelessness. Far from being exclusively middle-class, domestic concerns are shown to be all the more urgent and ongoing when shelter is precarious.Fraiman's reformulation frees domesticity from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Fraiman's readings include novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Feinberg, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka; Edith Wharton's classic decorating guide; popular women's magazines; and ethnographic studies of homeless subcultures. Recognizing the labor and know-how needed to produce the space we call "home," Extreme Domesticity vindicates domestic practices and appreciates their centrality to everyday life. At the same time, it remains well aware of domesticity's dark side. Neither a romance of artisanal housewifery nor an apology for conservative notions of home, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Doing Domesticity -- , 1 Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye -- , 2 Behind The Curtain: Domestic Industry in Mary Barton -- , 3 Domesticity Beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce -- , 4 Bad Girls of Good Housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart -- , 5 Undocumented Homes: Histories of Dislocation in Immigrant Fiction -- , 6 Domesticity in Extremis: Homemaking by the Unsheltered -- , Conclusion: Dwelling-in-Traveling, Traveling-in-Dwelling -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-231-16634-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/frai16634