Extreme Domesticity - A View From the Margins

Zusatztext In spirited and welcoming prose! Fraiman makes us rethink the ideological baggage the domestic realm carries. . . . She leaves us contemplating how we-and various others-value! occupy! and adorn both real and imagined dwelling places. Informationen zum Autor Susan Fraiman is professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her Columbia University Press books include Cool Men and the Second Sex (2003) and Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development (1993). Klappentext Susan Fraiman reformulates domesticity, freeing it from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings. Zusammenfassung Susan Fraiman reformulates domesticity, freeing it from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Houses: Histories of Dislocation in Immigrant Fiction 6. Domesticity in Extremis: Homemaking by the Unsheltered Conclusion: Dwelling-in-Traveling, Traveling-in-Dwelling Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Susan Fraiman
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780231166355
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16635-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Gender and Culture Series; Gender and Culture Series; Gender and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls