1st Edition
Cultural Ideals of Home The Social Dynamics of Domestic Space
By Deborah Chambers
Copyright 2020
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this book investigates how home is imagined, staged and experienced in western culture.
Questions about meanings of ‘home’ and domestic culture are triggered by dramatic changes in values and ideals about the dwellings we live in and the dwellings we desire or dread. Deborah Chambers explores how home is idealised as a middle-class haven,... Read more
Introduction: themes and issues
1 Heritage homes
2 Idealising homes and homemaking
3 Domestic modernity in suburbia
4 Early media homes
5 Property dramas and home makeovers
6 Home time in multiscreen homes
7 Alternative domesticities
8 Home mobilities and migration
9 Homes of the future
10 Sustainable homes
Biography
Deborah Chambers is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. Her most recent publications include Changing Media, Homes and Households (2016), Social Media and Personal Relationships (2013) and A Sociology of Family Life (2012).
