ISBN:
9780415171212
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (246 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Ideal Homes? : Social Change and the Experience of the Home
DDC:
304.230941
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Ideal Homes? provides a fascinating analysis which reveals how both popular images and experiences of home life can produce vital clues as to how society's members produce and respond to social change
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; The ideal home as it is imagined and as it is lived; Changing images of the ideal home; Privacy, security and respectability: the ideal Victorian home; The Modern house in England: an architecture of exclusion; Stage sets for ideal lives: images of home in contemporary show homes; Betwixt and between: homes in transition; 'The more we are together': domestic space, gender and privacy; Travelling makes a home: mobility and identity among West Indians; A home from home: students' transitional experience of home
Description / Table of Contents:
Fitting a quart into a pint pot: making space for older people in sheltered housingThe ideal of home: domesticating the institutional space of old age and death; Anxieties and risks: homes in danger; A haven in a heartless world? Women and domestic violence; Spoiled home identities: the experience of burglary; Houses of Doom; Changing perceptions of home; 'You've got him well trained': The negotiation of roles in the domestic sphere; The meaning of gardens in an age of risk; Daring to be different? Choosing an alternative to the ideal home; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
