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Author Pink, Sarah.

Title Home truths : gender, domestic objects and everyday life / Sarah Pink
Edition English edition
Published Oxford, UK : Berg, 2004

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 MELB  392.36 Pin/Htg  AVAILABLE
Description 163 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Prologue : everyday sensory lives -- 1. Introduction : changing gender in the sensory home -- 2. Video, performance and experience : researching and representing the sensory home -- 3. Theorizing changing gender at home -- 4. The sensory home -- 5. The housewife and her world : cultural categories and everyday lives -- 6. Departing from obsession : femininities at home -- 7. Engaging with domestic discovery : masculinities at home -- 8. Conclusion : sensory knowledge and creative practices
Summary "Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the intimate, material and sensory spaces of the home to uncover how gender roles are performed within our personal private worlds. Pink shows how everyday items ranging from perfumes to soap powder imprint and reinforce daily experience and a sense of identity. How has the home been affected by the fact that more and more women now got to work and increasingly more men spend time engaged in domestic tasks? How do more traditional family-centred 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?"--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Home -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
House cleaning -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Housekeeping -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies.
Women's studies.
LC no. 2004020620
ISBN 1859736866
1859736912