Cultural ideals of home : the social dynamics of domestic space / Deborah Chambers.

"Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this book investigates how home is imagined, staged and experienced in western culture. Questions about meanings of 'home' and domestic culture are triggered by dramatic changes in values and ideals about the dwellings we live in and...

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Main Author: Chambers, Deborah, 1954- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Directions in cultural history (London, England)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : themes and issues
  • Heritage homes
  • Idealising homes and homemaking
  • Domestic modernity in suburbia
  • Early media homes
  • Property dramas and home makeovers
  • Multiscreen home time
  • Alternative domesticities
  • Home mobilities and migration
  • Smart home futures
  • Sustainable homes.