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Ideal Homes?: Social Change and the Experience of the Home

Editat de Tony Chapman, Jenny Hockey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iul 1999
Ideal Homes? shows how both popular images and experiences of home life relate to the ability of society's members to produce and respond to social change.
The book provides for the first time an analysis of the space of the home and the experiences of home life by writers from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, architecture, geography and anthropology. It covers a range of subjects, including gender roles, different generations relationships to home, the changing nature of the family, transition and risk and alternative visions of home.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415171229
ISBN-10: 0415171229
Pagini: 246
Ilustrații: 9 tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface 1 The ideal home as it is imagined and as it is lived PART I Changing images of the ideal home 2 Privacy, security and respectability: the ideal Victorian home 3 The Modern house in England: an architecture of exclusion 4 Stage sets for ideal lives: images of home in contemporary show homes PART II Betwixt and between: homes in transition 5 'The more we are together': domestic space, gender and privacy 6 Travelling makes a home: mobility and identity among West Indians 7 A home from home: students' transitional experience of home 8 Fitting a quart into a pint pot: making space for older people in sheltered housing 9 The ideal of home: domesticating the institutional space of old age and death PART III Anxieties and risks: homes in danger 10 A haven in a heartless world? Women and domestic violence 11 Spoiled home identities: the experience of burglary 12 Houses of Doom PART IV Changing perceptions of home 13 'You've got him well trained': The negotiation of roles in the domestic sphere 14 The meaning of gardens in an age of risk 15 Daring to be different? Choosing an alternative to the ideal home

Notă biografică

Tony Chapman is Head of Sociology at the University of Teesside. Jenny Hockey is Senior Lecturer in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull.

Descriere

Ideal Homes? provides a fascinating analysis which reveals how both popular images and experiences of home life can produce vital clues as to how society's members produce and respond to social change.