Home Truths: Gender, Domestic Objects and Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9781859736913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 172 str.

Sarah Pink

Opis

Homes are defined by smells, sounds, textures and objects, all of which reflect how people live their everyday lives. From spray-painting the wall to relaxing in the bath, the products we use speak volumes about who we are. Home Truths explores material and sensory spaces of the home to uncover how gender roles are performed. Sarah Pink shows how everyday items ranging from perfumes to soap powder imprint and reinforce daily experiences and identity. How has the home been affected by the fact that more women now work and more men spend time engaged in domestic tasks? How do more traditional family-centered homes compare with those belonging to diverse family forms and people living alone? What does a study of domestic gender tell us about how change occurs? Answering these questions and many more, Home Truths shows how everyday activities can be deeply revealing of gender roles in the twenty first century.

Spis treści

Prologue:Everyday Sensory Lives * Introduction: Changing Gender in the Sensory Home * Video, Performance and Experience: Researching and Representing the Sensory Home * Theorising Changing Gender at Home * The Sensory Home * The Housewife and Her World: Cultural Categories and Everyday Lives * Departing from Obsession: Femininities at Home * Engaging with Domestic Discovery: Masculinities at Home * Conclusion: Sensory Knowledge and Creative Practices

O autorze

Dr. Sarah Pink is Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. She is the author of Women and Bullfighting.