Ideal Homes?: Social Change and the Experience of the Home

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ISBN: 9780415171229 | 0415171229
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Copyright: 9/17/1999

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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.

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.

List of illustrations

vii

Notes on contributors

viii

Preface

The ideal home as it is imagined and as it is lived

(14)

Tony Chapman

Jenny Hockey

PART I Changing images of the ideal home

(44)

Privacy, security and respectability: the ideal Victorian home

(13)

Mike Hepworth

The Modern house in England: an architecture of exclusion

(14)

Tim Brindley

Stage sets for ideal lives: images of home in contemporary show homes

(15)

Tony Chapman

PART II Betwixt and between: homes in transition

(60)

`The more we are together': domestic space, gender and privacy

(12)

Ruth Madigan

Moira Munro

Travelling makes a home: mobility ad identity among West Indians

(11)

Karen Fog Olwig

A home from home: students' transitional experience of home

(12)

Liz Kenyon

Fitting a quart into a pint pot: making space for older people in sheltered housing

(12)

Eileen Fairhurst

The ideal of home: domesticating the institutional space of old age and death

108

(11)

Jenny Hockey

PART III Anxieties and risks: homes in danger

119

(42)

A haven in a heartless world? Women and domestic violence

121

(12)

Laura Goldsack

Spoiled home identities: the experience of burglary

133

(14)

Tony Chapman

Houses of Doom

147

(14)

Jenny Hockey

PART IV Changing perceptions of home

161

(49)

`You've got him well trained': The negotiation of roles in the domestic sphere

163

(18)

Tony Chapman

The meaning of gardens in an age of risk

181

(13)

Mark Bhatti

Daring to be different? Choosing an alternative to the ideal home

194

(16)

Tony Chapman

Jenny Hockey

Martin Wood

Bibliography

210

(18)

Index

228

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Ideal Homes?: Social Change and the Experience of the Home

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