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1st Edition

Ideal Homes? Social Change and the Experience of the Home

Edited By Tony Chapman, Jenny Hockey Copyright 1999
    246 Pages
    by Routledge

    246 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    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.

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