Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 242 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781472584304
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9781472584410
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9781474207188
Serie:
Cultural histories series
Inhalt:
"In the last century, our understandings of home have changed profoundly in the wake of revolutionary new technologies and communications, medical advances, global wars and migration, celebrity and consumer cultures, liberation movements, and redefinitions of marriage and family. The rapidity of social transformation in this era has evoked feelings of possibility in the disruption of norms, but also of unease in the dissolution of traditions. These changes have also challenged dominant ideologies of private and public spheres and revealed the porous boundaries between home and the world beyond. The essays in this volume explore the home's centrality in debates since the end of the First World War about our identities, resources, hopes, and anxieties as individuals and communities. In their analyses of the complexity and elusiveness of meanings of home, the physical materiality of the home - its objects, spaces, and layout - comes under close scrutiny"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-238) and index
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1. The Meaning of Home: Defining Domesticity in the Modern Age13-38 -- 2. Family and Household: A Century of Bedrooms39-62 -- 3. The House: The Global Age of Housing63-90 -- 4. Furniture and Furnishings: Material Culture and Making the Modern91-112 -- 5. Home and Work: Household Labour and the Making of Inequalities113-136 -- 6. Gender and Home: (Re)scripting Domestic Life and Design137-160 -- 7. Hospitality and Home: British and American Cultures of Entertaining161-184 -- 8. Religion and Home: Sites of Sanctuary and Suspicion.
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Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9781474207188
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