Adler / Hamilton Homes and Homecomings

Gendered Histories of Domesticity and Return
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5198-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Gender and History Special Issues

In Homes and Homecomings an international group of scholarsprovide inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics ofhomes and homecomings. Using innovative methodological andtheoretical approaches, the book examines case studies from Africa,Asia, the Americas and Europe.
* Provides inspiring new historical perspectives on the politicsof homes and homecomings
* Takes an historical approach to a subject area that issurprisingly little historicised
* Features original research from a group of internationalscholars
* 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 ofhistorical contexts

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adler, K. H.

Hamilton, Carrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Gendering Histories of Homes and Homecomings (K.H. Adler).
1. Communist Comfort: Socialist Modernism and the Making of CosyHomes in the Khrushchev Era (Susan E. Reid).
2. Corporate Domesticity and Idealised Masculinity: Royal NavalOfficers and their Shipboard Homes, 1918-39 (QuintinColville).
3. Men Making Home: Masculinity and Domesticity inEighteenth-Century Britain (Karen Harvey).
4. 'Who Should Be the Author of a Dwelling?' Architects versusHousewives in 1950s France (Nicole Rudolph).
5. Ideal Homes and the Gender Politics of Consumerism inPostcolonial Ghana, 1960-70 (Bianca Murillo).
6. 'The Dining Room Should Be the Man's Paradise, as the DrawingRoom Is the Woman's': Gender and Middle-Class Domestic Space inEngland, 1850-1910 (Jane Hamlett).
7. 'There Is Graite Odds between A Mans being At Home And ABroad': Deborah Read Franklin and the Eighteenth-Century Home(Vivian Bruce Conger).
8. Sexual Politics and Socialist Housing: Building Homes inRevolutionary Cuba (Carrie Hamilton).
9. 'The White Wife Problem': Sex, Race and the ContestedPolitics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa (CarinaE. 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 fromJapanese Internment in the Second World War (ChristinaTwomey).
Notes on Contributors.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

K. H. Adler lectures in history at the University ofNottingham. She is the author of Jews and Gender in LiberationFrance (2003), and the editor of Gender & History.She is currently working on a book about post-war homecomings intwentieth-century France.
Carrie Hamilton lectures in History at RoehamptonUniversity, London, where she is also Director of the Centre forResearch in Sex, Gender and Sexuality. She is the author ofWomen and ETA: The Gender Politics of Radical BasqueNationalism (2007), and is currently writing a book onsexuality and the Cuban Revolution.