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Ideal Homes? Social Change and Domestic Life

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ISBN-10: 0415171229

ISBN-13: 9780415171229

Edition: 1999

Authors: Tony Chapman, Jenny Hockey

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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 contributors represent a wide range of disciplines including sociology and architecture.
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Book details

List price: $70.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

VICTORIA ROBINSONnbsp;Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport , co-author of Mundane Heterosexualities , and co-editor of Introducing Gender and Women's Studies . nbsp; JENNY HOCKEY Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Sheffield University, UK. She is co-author of Mundane Heterosexualities and a former editor of the Journal of Gender Studies. Her research interests include ageing, the life course, death, bereavement and memorialisation.

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
The ideal home as it is imagined and as it is lived
Changing images of the ideal home
Privacy, security and respectability: the ideal Victorian home
The Modern house in England: an architecture of exclusion
Stage sets for ideal lives: images of home in contemporary show homes
Betwixt and between: homes in transition
'The more we are together': domestic space, gender and privacy
Travelling makes a home: mobility and identity among West Indians
A home from home: students' transitional experience of home
Fitting a quart into a pint pot: making space for older people in sheltered housing
The ideal of home: domesticating the institutional space of old age and death
Anxieties and risks: homes in danger
A haven in a heartless world? Women and domestic violence
Spoiled home identities: the experience of burglary
Houses of Doom
Changing perceptions of home
'You've got him well trained': The negotiation of roles in the domestic sphere
The meaning of gardens in an age of risk
Daring to be different? Choosing an alternative to the ideal home
Bibliography
Index