Extreme Domesticity : : A View from the Margins / / Susan Fraiman.
Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notion...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gender and Culture Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 14 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Doing Domesticity
- 1 Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye
- 2 Behind The Curtain: Domestic Industry in Mary Barton
- 3 Domesticity Beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce
- 4 Bad Girls of Good Housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart
- 5 Undocumented Homes: Histories of Dislocation in Immigrant Fiction
- 6 Domesticity in Extremis: Homemaking by the Unsheltered
- Conclusion: Dwelling-in-Traveling, Traveling-in-Dwelling
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index