| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) |
| Contents |
The ideal home as it is imagined and as it is lived / Tony Chapman and Jenny Hockey -- pt. 1. Changing images of the ideal home: Privacy, security and respectability : the ideal Victorian home / Mike Hepworth ; The modern house in England : an architecture of exclusion / Tim Brindley ; Stage sets for ideal lives : images of home in contemporary show homes / Tony Chapman -- pt. 2. Betwixt and between : homes in transition: 'The more we are together' : domestic space, gender and privacy / Ruth Madigan and Moira Munro ; Travelling makes a home : mobility and identity among West Indians / Karen Fog Olwig ; A home from home : students' transitional experience of home / Liz Kenyon ; Fitting a quart into a pint pot : making space for older people in sheltered housing / Eileen Fairhurst ; The ideal of home : domesticating the institutional space of old age and death / Jenny Hockey -- pt. 3. Anxieties and risks : homes in danger: A haven in a heartless world? : women and domestic violence / Laura Goldsack ; Spoiled home identities : the experience of burglary / Tony Chapman ; Houses of doom / Jenny Hockey -- pt. 4. Changing perceptions of home: 'You've got him well trained? : the negotiation of roles in the domestic sphere / Tony Chapman ; The meaning of gardens in an age of risk / Mark Bhatti ; Daring to be different? : choosing an alternative to the ideal home / Tony Chapman, Jenny Hockey and Martin Wood |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-227) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Home -- Great Britain
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Dwellings -- Great Britain
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Housing -- Great Britain.
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Families -- Great Britain
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Dwellings
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Families
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Home
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Housing
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chapman, Tony, 1959-
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Hockey, Jennifer Lorna.
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| ISBN |
0203029135 |
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9780203029138 |
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0415171210 |
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9780415171212 |
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0415171229 |
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9780415171229 |
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0203219503 |
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9780203219508 |
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1280332557 |
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9781280332555 |
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9786610332557 |
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661033255X |
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1134695845 |
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9781134695843 |
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