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Home and Sexuality : The 'Other' Side of the Kitchen / by Rachael M Scicluna

Scicluna, Rachael M.

London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Online-Ressource (XI, 275 p. 18 illus. in color, online resource)

Englisch

978-1-137-46038-7

978-1-137-46037-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1002233798 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/978-1-137-46038-7

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LOC-SH: Social sciences ; Sociology ; Families ; Families -- Social aspects ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Social Sciences

“Scicluna’s richly ethnographic study of older lesbians’ experiences of kitchens […] takes the reader through the intricacies of the politics of gender relations and sexuality by focusing on a key domestic space in which they are played out, and sometimes fought out, on a daily basis.” -Sarah Green, University of Helsinki, Finland “The scrupulous attention to detail and emergent analysis reveal that the taken for granted has powerful potential for exposing hitherto hidden political, personal issues.” -Judith Okely, University of Oxford, UK “This ‘back story’ of lesbian life has been missing from studies of political and social organizing [and is] a very welcome addition to the growing literature on daily life, material culture, and aging.” -Ellen Lewin, University of Iowa, USA

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Introduction:The ‘other’ side of the kitchen -- Part I: Home and sexuality -- 1. Multiple meanings of homes: a changing social and political domain across cultures -- 2. The domestic kitchen across time -- Part II: The domestic as a tool for ethnographic inquiry -- 3. Towards alternative domesticities -- 4. The kitchen is good to think: the kitchen as a place for theorising -- Part III: The other side of the kitchen -- 5. The kitchen as a place for politics: a contested and subversive place -- 6. Turning the tables: generational domestic battles -- 7. The kitchen as a place, of and for, memory and narration -- Conclusion: The political liveliness of the domestic