Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-227) and index.
Table of Contents
The ideal home as it is imagined and as it is lived /Tony Chapman and Jenny Hockey --pt. 1.Changing images of the ideal home:Privacy, security and respectability : the ideal Victorian home /Mike Hepworth ;The modern house in England : an architecture of exclusion /Tim Brindley ;Stage sets for ideal lives : images of home in contemporary show homes /Tony Chapman --pt. 2.Betwixt and between : homes in transition:'The more we are together' : domestic space, gender and privacy /Ruth Madigan and Moira Munro ;Travelling makes a home : mobility and identity among West Indians /Karen Fog Olwig ;A home from home : students' transitional experience of home /Liz Kenyon ;Fitting a quart into a pint pot : making space for older people in sheltered housing /Eileen Fairhurst ;The ideal of home : domesticating the institutional space of old age and death /Jenny Hockey --pt. 3.Anxieties and risks : homes in danger:A haven in a heartless world? : women and domestic violence /Laura Goldsack ;Spoiled home identities : the experience of burglary /Tony Chapman ;Houses of doom /Jenny Hockey --pt. 4.Changing perceptions of home:'You've got him well trained? : the negotiation of roles in the domestic sphere /Tony Chapman ;The meaning of gardens in an age of risk /Mark Bhatti ;Daring to be different? : choosing an alternative to the ideal home /Tony Chapman, Jenny Hockey and Martin Wood.