Overview

This edited collection of new writing brings together leading researchers in the field of home and domestic life from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, criminology, psychology, social policy and anthropology. Chapters cover many issues including: the changing images of home historical and contemporary accepted notions of the ideal home privacy in the home the successes and failures of the modern home sheltered housing accomodation and the renegotiation of domestic labour. Ideal Homes? provides a fascinating analysis of a subject area largely ignored by social scientists and commentators. This collection 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. Tony Chapman, University of Teesside Jenny Hockey, University of Aberdeen Tim Brindley, De Montfort University Ruth Madigan, University of Glasgow Moira Munro, Herio

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Author:   Tony Chapman ,  Jenny Hockey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780415171212

ISBN 10:   0415171210
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   15 July 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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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