1st Edition
The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century represents a new synthesis of gender history and material culture studies. It seeks to analyse the lives and cultural expression of single men and women from 1650 to 1850 within the main focus of domestic activity, the home. Whilst there is much scholarly interest in singleness and a raft of literature on the construction and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Being single; Singleness and homemaking: locating the single household; Organisation and management of a single household; Social and symbolic uses of the homes of single people; Compromised spaces: lodgers, boarders and shared domestic space; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
David Hussey is subject leader in History at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Margaret Ponsonby is Senior Lecturer in History and Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton.
'Domestic space is very much at the centre: the authors see the home, as many social historians are increasingly doing, as 'a cockpit wherein the cultures of consumption were defined and exercised'. We benefit enormously from their decision to consider single men and women together, which makes the comparative role of the account constantly illuminating.' History
