In Homes and Homecomings an international group of scholars
provide inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of
homes and homecomings. Using innovative methodological and
theoretical approaches, the book examines case studies from Africa,
Asia, the Americas and Europe.
* Provides inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics
of homes and homecomings
* Takes an historical approach to a subject area that is
surprisingly little historicised
* Features original research from a group of international
scholars
* The book has an international approach that focuses on Africa,
Asia, the Americas and East and West Europe
* Contains original illustrations of homes in a variety of
historical contexts
İçerik tablosu
Introduction: Gendering Histories of Homes and Homecomings (K.
H. Adler).
1. Communist Comfort: Socialist Modernism and the Making of Cosy
Homes in the Khrushchev Era (Susan E. Reid).
2. Corporate Domesticity and Idealised Masculinity: Royal Naval
Officers and their Shipboard Homes, 1918-39 (Quintin
Colville).
3. Men Making Home: Masculinity and Domesticity in
Eighteenth-Century Britain (Karen Harvey).
4. ‘Who Should Be the Author of a Dwelling?’ Architects versus
Housewives in 1950s France (Nicole Rudolph).
5. Ideal Homes and the Gender Politics of Consumerism in
Postcolonial Ghana, 1960-70 (Bianca Murillo).
6. ‘The Dining Room Should Be the Man’s Paradise, as the Drawing
Room Is the Woman’s’: Gender and Middle-Class Domestic Space in
England, 1850-1910 (Jane Hamlett).
7. ‘There Is Graite Odds between A Mans being At Home And A
Broad’: Deborah Read Franklin and the Eighteenth-Century Home
(Vivian Bruce Conger).
8. Sexual Politics and Socialist Housing: Building Homes in
Revolutionary Cuba (Carrie Hamilton).
9. ‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race and the Contested
Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa (Carina
E. Ray).
10. From Husbands and Housewives to Suckers and Whores:
Marital-Political Anxieties in the ‘House of Egypt’, 1919-48
(Lisa Pollard).
11. Double Displacement: Western Women’s Return Home from
Japanese Internment in the Second World War (Christina
Twomey).
Notes on Contributors.
Index.
Yazar hakkında
K. H. Adler lectures in history at the University of
Nottingham. She is the author of Jews and Gender in Liberation
France (2003), and the editor of Gender & History.
She is currently working on a book about post-war homecomings in
twentieth-century France.
Carrie Hamilton lectures in History at Roehampton
University, London, where she is also Director of the Centre for
Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of
Women and ETA: The Gender Politics of Radical Basque
Nationalism (2007), and is currently writing a book on
sexuality and the Cuban Revolution.