Dúnlaith Bird
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199644162
- eISBN:
- 9780199949984
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644162.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
Chapter 8 This chapter discusses the complex strategies, from transposition of the home space to aesthetic discourse, used by women travel writers to access the Oriental space while avoiding censure. ...
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Chapter 8 This chapter discusses the complex strategies, from transposition of the home space to aesthetic discourse, used by women travel writers to access the Oriental space while avoiding censure. It begins with Isabella Bird’s depiction of ‘embryonic’ spaces in the American Wild West, precursors to the unbeaten tracks she pursues in her Oriental travelogues. It then analyses the overlaying of exotic with domestic space in the work of both Bird and Gertrude Bell. The second section examines how constructions of the female and native body disrupt the textual formulation of the Orient, from Bird’s feminisation of the Korean landscape, painting rather than planting her flag of conquest, to Isabelle Eberhardt’s conflation of the female body and colonial space in Algeria. The final section considers the lure of the desert, its opposition to the topos of the harem, and the potential it offers for a textual ‘third space’.Less
Chapter 8 This chapter discusses the complex strategies, from transposition of the home space to aesthetic discourse, used by women travel writers to access the Oriental space while avoiding censure. It begins with Isabella Bird’s depiction of ‘embryonic’ spaces in the American Wild West, precursors to the unbeaten tracks she pursues in her Oriental travelogues. It then analyses the overlaying of exotic with domestic space in the work of both Bird and Gertrude Bell. The second section examines how constructions of the female and native body disrupt the textual formulation of the Orient, from Bird’s feminisation of the Korean landscape, painting rather than planting her flag of conquest, to Isabelle Eberhardt’s conflation of the female body and colonial space in Algeria. The final section considers the lure of the desert, its opposition to the topos of the harem, and the potential it offers for a textual ‘third space’.
Catherine Richardson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719065446
- eISBN:
- 9781781701164
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719065446.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
In late sixteenth-century England, domestic life became the subject of scrutiny: just what was the household, how might it be made to further God's intentions for the world, what ideals should govern ...
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In late sixteenth-century England, domestic life became the subject of scrutiny: just what was the household, how might it be made to further God's intentions for the world, what ideals should govern conduct within it? The project of the ecclesiastical courts was to ensure that domestic activities were equally subject to moral justice as their more physically open counterparts, and to insist that the same precepts of Christian morality and charity governed behaviour in every space under the watchful eye of God's providence. This chapter takes its evidence from household manuals and from ecclesiastical court depositions, evidence that makes it possible to connect literary didacticism to the written record of oral tales about domestic space and behaviour. In pursuing the points at which early modern men and women think spatially, and the way they moralise spatial relations, it considers the house from the outside, from the boundary and from the inside.Less
In late sixteenth-century England, domestic life became the subject of scrutiny: just what was the household, how might it be made to further God's intentions for the world, what ideals should govern conduct within it? The project of the ecclesiastical courts was to ensure that domestic activities were equally subject to moral justice as their more physically open counterparts, and to insist that the same precepts of Christian morality and charity governed behaviour in every space under the watchful eye of God's providence. This chapter takes its evidence from household manuals and from ecclesiastical court depositions, evidence that makes it possible to connect literary didacticism to the written record of oral tales about domestic space and behaviour. In pursuing the points at which early modern men and women think spatially, and the way they moralise spatial relations, it considers the house from the outside, from the boundary and from the inside.
Chad Luck
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263004
- eISBN:
- 9780823266340
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263004.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
This chapter argues that two New England writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Elizabeth Stoddard, each rework the discourse of antebellum diet reform into a nuanced theory of property and domestic space. ...
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This chapter argues that two New England writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Elizabeth Stoddard, each rework the discourse of antebellum diet reform into a nuanced theory of property and domestic space. In House of the Seven Gables and The Morgesons, the two authors identify the phenomenological experience of eating as a fundamental aspect of appropriation, a primordial form of “alimentary possession.” At the same time, this chapter demonstrates how both authors capitalize on the medico-physiological language of the diet reformers in order to establish an analogy between the alimentary body and the space of the home. Doing so reveals the ways in which eating helps condition the inside/outside structure of domestic space. Whereas Hawthorne ultimately laments the “masculine” market’s invasion of the alimentary home, however, Stoddard discovers radical potential in a “feminine” gift-economy at odds with this all-consuming market.Less
This chapter argues that two New England writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Elizabeth Stoddard, each rework the discourse of antebellum diet reform into a nuanced theory of property and domestic space. In House of the Seven Gables and The Morgesons, the two authors identify the phenomenological experience of eating as a fundamental aspect of appropriation, a primordial form of “alimentary possession.” At the same time, this chapter demonstrates how both authors capitalize on the medico-physiological language of the diet reformers in order to establish an analogy between the alimentary body and the space of the home. Doing so reveals the ways in which eating helps condition the inside/outside structure of domestic space. Whereas Hawthorne ultimately laments the “masculine” market’s invasion of the alimentary home, however, Stoddard discovers radical potential in a “feminine” gift-economy at odds with this all-consuming market.
Catherine Richardson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719065446
- eISBN:
- 9781781701164
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719065446.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter investigates the relationship between domestic spaces, household objects and the individuals who owned them, examining the manner in which those individuals furnished their houses and ...
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This chapter investigates the relationship between domestic spaces, household objects and the individuals who owned them, examining the manner in which those individuals furnished their houses and their attitudes towards their possessions against the way they talked about domestic life. Although the method is historical in the disciplinary sense, the chapter is literary in its presentation: in the way it privileges the qualitative over the quantitative in order to find a narrative form that gives the extensive statistical data meaning in terms of contemporary perceptions of status, lifecycle and gender within the household. It explores the way objects mediate social relations, but those of affect rather than production and consumption, and analyses individuals' descriptions of their household as evidence of broader cultural patterns of thought about domestic materiality. Such information is important for an understanding of domestic tragedy in several ways. The chapter also discusses domestic goods as bequests, the language of bequests, objects and spaces, biographies of domestic possession and narratives of the house.Less
This chapter investigates the relationship between domestic spaces, household objects and the individuals who owned them, examining the manner in which those individuals furnished their houses and their attitudes towards their possessions against the way they talked about domestic life. Although the method is historical in the disciplinary sense, the chapter is literary in its presentation: in the way it privileges the qualitative over the quantitative in order to find a narrative form that gives the extensive statistical data meaning in terms of contemporary perceptions of status, lifecycle and gender within the household. It explores the way objects mediate social relations, but those of affect rather than production and consumption, and analyses individuals' descriptions of their household as evidence of broader cultural patterns of thought about domestic materiality. Such information is important for an understanding of domestic tragedy in several ways. The chapter also discusses domestic goods as bequests, the language of bequests, objects and spaces, biographies of domestic possession and narratives of the house.
Catherine Richardson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719065446
- eISBN:
- 9781781701164
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719065446.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed With Kindness is a very different kind of domestic tragedy from Arden of Faversham or Two Lamentable Tragedies. It is not based on a historical narrative, and its only ...
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Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed With Kindness is a very different kind of domestic tragedy from Arden of Faversham or Two Lamentable Tragedies. It is not based on a historical narrative, and its only gestures towards geographical particularity are a few mentions of York and Yorkshire. There is no murder, and hence none of the accompanying tense frustrations of murder's prelude or aftermath and little of the temporal tightness with which long hours of anticipation are stretched in the other plays. Neither are the social tensions of competition between men quite the same in Heywood's play. The prologue sets up both the strictures of representation and the privations of low status, making suggestive comparison between the way material culture negotiates both types of difference. The insistence on the interrelationship of domestic spaces gives the play its strong sense of a physically coherent household, one that contains and gives significance to the events which take place within it.Less
Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed With Kindness is a very different kind of domestic tragedy from Arden of Faversham or Two Lamentable Tragedies. It is not based on a historical narrative, and its only gestures towards geographical particularity are a few mentions of York and Yorkshire. There is no murder, and hence none of the accompanying tense frustrations of murder's prelude or aftermath and little of the temporal tightness with which long hours of anticipation are stretched in the other plays. Neither are the social tensions of competition between men quite the same in Heywood's play. The prologue sets up both the strictures of representation and the privations of low status, making suggestive comparison between the way material culture negotiates both types of difference. The insistence on the interrelationship of domestic spaces gives the play its strong sense of a physically coherent household, one that contains and gives significance to the events which take place within it.
Jonathan Atkin
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719065446
- eISBN:
- 9781781701164
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719065446.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
Henry Hitch Adams argued that the realism of domestic tragedies ‘made the moral lesson effective by illustrating, directly in terms of the experiences of the audience, the punishments for sin’. This ...
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Henry Hitch Adams argued that the realism of domestic tragedies ‘made the moral lesson effective by illustrating, directly in terms of the experiences of the audience, the punishments for sin’. This book has been an attempt to unpick the ways in which that realism might have engaged the experiences of the plays' first audiences, through a reconstruction of attitudes towards house and household and an extended consideration of staging practices. Throughout these plays, the progression of property and family values that smoothes the disjunctures of death is pointedly interrupted. Domestic space is violated by individuals who cannot relinquish their own physical purchase on what they see around them in favour of guaranteeing a future for their families. The book has argued for the materiality of a contemporary understanding of the domestic, and for the sensory qualities of memories of the household. In domestic tragedies, objects reflect more than status.Less
Henry Hitch Adams argued that the realism of domestic tragedies ‘made the moral lesson effective by illustrating, directly in terms of the experiences of the audience, the punishments for sin’. This book has been an attempt to unpick the ways in which that realism might have engaged the experiences of the plays' first audiences, through a reconstruction of attitudes towards house and household and an extended consideration of staging practices. Throughout these plays, the progression of property and family values that smoothes the disjunctures of death is pointedly interrupted. Domestic space is violated by individuals who cannot relinquish their own physical purchase on what they see around them in favour of guaranteeing a future for their families. The book has argued for the materiality of a contemporary understanding of the domestic, and for the sensory qualities of memories of the household. In domestic tragedies, objects reflect more than status.
Lynne Attwood
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719081453
- eISBN:
- 9781781701768
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719081453.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
An acute housing shortage was one of the defining features of Soviet life. This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on ...
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An acute housing shortage was one of the defining features of Soviet life. This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing and the meaning and experience of ‘home’ for Soviet citizens. The book's main concern is housing as a gendered issue. To this end, it examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. The book places the research firmly in the context of existing literature. While this includes a number of short works that consider the gendered implications of housing policy in specific periods, the book provides an analysis of housing as a gendered issue throughout Soviet history, comparing and contrasting housing policy and the experience of home life under different leaders. Much of the material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables the book to demonstrate how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the Soviet era, and were propagandised to the population. Through a series of in-depth interviews, the book also draws on the memories of people with direct experience of Soviet housing and domestic life.Less
An acute housing shortage was one of the defining features of Soviet life. This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing and the meaning and experience of ‘home’ for Soviet citizens. The book's main concern is housing as a gendered issue. To this end, it examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. The book places the research firmly in the context of existing literature. While this includes a number of short works that consider the gendered implications of housing policy in specific periods, the book provides an analysis of housing as a gendered issue throughout Soviet history, comparing and contrasting housing policy and the experience of home life under different leaders. Much of the material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables the book to demonstrate how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the Soviet era, and were propagandised to the population. Through a series of in-depth interviews, the book also draws on the memories of people with direct experience of Soviet housing and domestic life.
Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262015554
- eISBN:
- 9780262295345
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015554.003.0080
- Subject:
- Computer Science, Programming Languages
This chapter examines the interplay between technology and the home’s social and moral organization, focusing on the fact that “the home” is a highly variable cultural object, in physical, social, ...
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This chapter examines the interplay between technology and the home’s social and moral organization, focusing on the fact that “the home” is a highly variable cultural object, in physical, social, economic, and emotional terms. It approaches this topic from three perspectives: The image of the so-called smart home and its connection to previous images of the “home of the future”; a decentered view of the home as a sociotechnical arena, concentrating on the boundaries of the movement of technologies into and out of domestic space; and considerations of safety and danger as they relate to information technology and nurturance.Less
This chapter examines the interplay between technology and the home’s social and moral organization, focusing on the fact that “the home” is a highly variable cultural object, in physical, social, economic, and emotional terms. It approaches this topic from three perspectives: The image of the so-called smart home and its connection to previous images of the “home of the future”; a decentered view of the home as a sociotechnical arena, concentrating on the boundaries of the movement of technologies into and out of domestic space; and considerations of safety and danger as they relate to information technology and nurturance.
Leonore Davidoff
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199546480
- eISBN:
- 9780191730993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546480.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Social History, Family History
A high birth rate among most people meant offspring were spread over a wide age range creating an ‘intermediate generation’ between parents and younger children. Life in middle-class households could ...
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A high birth rate among most people meant offspring were spread over a wide age range creating an ‘intermediate generation’ between parents and younger children. Life in middle-class households could be crowded, added to by residential servants, pupils, apprentices, and visitors. Children and young people were expected to share space and possessions. Parents and others used a variety of routines and punishments to manage these large broods. Elder children, particularly girls, helped with and taught the younger. Given the high incidence of serious illness, and high infant and child mortality, religious beliefs were an important source of guidance and solace. Adults favoured some children over others. Youngsters were expected to conform to accepted forms of feminine and masculine behaviour. In the late nineteenth century, middle-class family size gradually declined, fuelling eugenicist fears. By the 1920s large families were looked down on, an attitude that fed class tensions.Less
A high birth rate among most people meant offspring were spread over a wide age range creating an ‘intermediate generation’ between parents and younger children. Life in middle-class households could be crowded, added to by residential servants, pupils, apprentices, and visitors. Children and young people were expected to share space and possessions. Parents and others used a variety of routines and punishments to manage these large broods. Elder children, particularly girls, helped with and taught the younger. Given the high incidence of serious illness, and high infant and child mortality, religious beliefs were an important source of guidance and solace. Adults favoured some children over others. Youngsters were expected to conform to accepted forms of feminine and masculine behaviour. In the late nineteenth century, middle-class family size gradually declined, fuelling eugenicist fears. By the 1920s large families were looked down on, an attitude that fed class tensions.
Lucy Hall
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781789621822
- eISBN:
- 9781800341302
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621822.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
Lucy Hall examines how three novels by women published before, during and just after the Second World War reframe wider social concerns over gender and power through the prism of the domestic space. ...
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Lucy Hall examines how three novels by women published before, during and just after the Second World War reframe wider social concerns over gender and power through the prism of the domestic space. The essay suggests that the authors discussed embody a mid-century perspective that characterizes a number of interfeminist texts. The novels express cultural fears alongside wider themes of invasion, tyranny, and power as they expose how the domestic sphere becomes a contested space in which broad-ranging anxieties are played out. In the context of the 1930s and 1940s the essay speculates on the idea that a version of fascism lies beneath the surface of the three domestic narratives in which female characters are constrained and, to a greater or lesser extent, forcibly excluded not only from a male-dominated social order but also from their traditional role in the domestic space itself.Less
Lucy Hall examines how three novels by women published before, during and just after the Second World War reframe wider social concerns over gender and power through the prism of the domestic space. The essay suggests that the authors discussed embody a mid-century perspective that characterizes a number of interfeminist texts. The novels express cultural fears alongside wider themes of invasion, tyranny, and power as they expose how the domestic sphere becomes a contested space in which broad-ranging anxieties are played out. In the context of the 1930s and 1940s the essay speculates on the idea that a version of fascism lies beneath the surface of the three domestic narratives in which female characters are constrained and, to a greater or lesser extent, forcibly excluded not only from a male-dominated social order but also from their traditional role in the domestic space itself.
Leslie J. Moran
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199260744
- eISBN:
- 9780191698675
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199260744.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
The ‘Bolton 7’, composed of seven men and an ‘unnamed minor’ were all charged and guilty of buggery after they have been found to be in possession of and had created videos that exhibited gross ...
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The ‘Bolton 7’, composed of seven men and an ‘unnamed minor’ were all charged and guilty of buggery after they have been found to be in possession of and had created videos that exhibited gross indecency. While five of the accused were subject to probation orders and were assigned to attend community service, the two older men were not only to be imprisoned, they were to register as ‘sex offenders’ under the Sex Offenders Act 1997. This chapter looks into and analyzes the various spatial themes involved in the trials and controversies attributed to this particular case. Such spatial dimensions mostly concern the intimate and domestic spaces of the home, the assertion of how such a crime produced no victims, and how criminal law may be involved with such ‘behind closed doors’ operations.Less
The ‘Bolton 7’, composed of seven men and an ‘unnamed minor’ were all charged and guilty of buggery after they have been found to be in possession of and had created videos that exhibited gross indecency. While five of the accused were subject to probation orders and were assigned to attend community service, the two older men were not only to be imprisoned, they were to register as ‘sex offenders’ under the Sex Offenders Act 1997. This chapter looks into and analyzes the various spatial themes involved in the trials and controversies attributed to this particular case. Such spatial dimensions mostly concern the intimate and domestic spaces of the home, the assertion of how such a crime produced no victims, and how criminal law may be involved with such ‘behind closed doors’ operations.
Rebecca S. Graff
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780813066493
- eISBN:
- 9780813058702
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066493.003.0004
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
This chapter considers domesticity and social life within two “houses”: the fair’s Ohio Building and the Charnley House. It begins with an overview of American ideologies of domesticity and domestic ...
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This chapter considers domesticity and social life within two “houses”: the fair’s Ohio Building and the Charnley House. It begins with an overview of American ideologies of domesticity and domestic spaces through historical and archaeological accounts. Next discussion moves to the Ohio Building, a small structure from the fair that operated as a sort of clubhouse for tourists. Many conceived of the fair’s quasi-domestic state buildings as domestic because of their non-monumental scale, their intended use as spaces for informal social life, and the cutting-edge sanitary infrastructure, such as toilets, that tourists could experience within them. The chapter turns to a detailed residential history of the Astor Street home, to reveal further interconnections and entanglements of elite social networks in Chicago. Adding to these experiences, a look at the limited documentary record of servants from the Charnley House and the Ohio Building expands upon domestic life, architecturally, materially, and socially.Less
This chapter considers domesticity and social life within two “houses”: the fair’s Ohio Building and the Charnley House. It begins with an overview of American ideologies of domesticity and domestic spaces through historical and archaeological accounts. Next discussion moves to the Ohio Building, a small structure from the fair that operated as a sort of clubhouse for tourists. Many conceived of the fair’s quasi-domestic state buildings as domestic because of their non-monumental scale, their intended use as spaces for informal social life, and the cutting-edge sanitary infrastructure, such as toilets, that tourists could experience within them. The chapter turns to a detailed residential history of the Astor Street home, to reveal further interconnections and entanglements of elite social networks in Chicago. Adding to these experiences, a look at the limited documentary record of servants from the Charnley House and the Ohio Building expands upon domestic life, architecturally, materially, and socially.
Jennifer Cousineau
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781904113461
- eISBN:
- 9781800340343
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113461.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter looks at how space is domesticated inside and outside the house for Jewish purposes. It considers the consequences of constructing an eruv in London and the controversies that this ...
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This chapter looks at how space is domesticated inside and outside the house for Jewish purposes. It considers the consequences of constructing an eruv in London and the controversies that this engendered. Structurally, the eruv (technically, eruv ḥatserot, meaning ‘a mingling of courtyards’) is an urban space whose disparate areas are regarded halakhically as forming a single unit by virtue of the contiguity of its boundaries. Here, the chapter examines the experience of the structure as built, rather than discussing the detail of its planning and construction. Furthermore, it focuses on ordinary Jews rather than on the Jewish leadership, and on women's lives rather than men's. Of methodological interest here is the investigation of space objectively and subjectively by inviting participants to draw cognitive maps of their public and domestic spaces.Less
This chapter looks at how space is domesticated inside and outside the house for Jewish purposes. It considers the consequences of constructing an eruv in London and the controversies that this engendered. Structurally, the eruv (technically, eruv ḥatserot, meaning ‘a mingling of courtyards’) is an urban space whose disparate areas are regarded halakhically as forming a single unit by virtue of the contiguity of its boundaries. Here, the chapter examines the experience of the structure as built, rather than discussing the detail of its planning and construction. Furthermore, it focuses on ordinary Jews rather than on the Jewish leadership, and on women's lives rather than men's. Of methodological interest here is the investigation of space objectively and subjectively by inviting participants to draw cognitive maps of their public and domestic spaces.
Miko Flohr
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199659357
- eISBN:
- 9780191750618
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659357.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
An important issue in the design and construction of a fulling workshop was its position in the city. This has been a particularly sensitive issue in the modern perception of Roman fulling, as the ...
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An important issue in the design and construction of a fulling workshop was its position in the city. This has been a particularly sensitive issue in the modern perception of Roman fulling, as the activity has commonly been thought to have caused considerable nuisance, particularly because of the use of urine in the process. This chapter examines the location of fulleries in the cities where they were found and the way in which these workshops were embedded in their urban environment.It examines the degree to which the alleged nuisance caused by fulleries shaped the spatial position of fulling workshops in the city and their relations with surrounding public and private space.Less
An important issue in the design and construction of a fulling workshop was its position in the city. This has been a particularly sensitive issue in the modern perception of Roman fulling, as the activity has commonly been thought to have caused considerable nuisance, particularly because of the use of urine in the process. This chapter examines the location of fulleries in the cities where they were found and the way in which these workshops were embedded in their urban environment.It examines the degree to which the alleged nuisance caused by fulleries shaped the spatial position of fulling workshops in the city and their relations with surrounding public and private space.
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780804799799
- eISBN:
- 9781503601475
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804799799.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This chapter looks at how objects that entered the middle-class home in the late nineteenth century generated a new kind of domesticity. Although its relation to public benefit remained ambiguous, ...
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This chapter looks at how objects that entered the middle-class home in the late nineteenth century generated a new kind of domesticity. Although its relation to public benefit remained ambiguous, the home was indirectly transformed by its changing urban environment and by new spatial ideals. In addition, Beirut’s prominence as port city and its growing appetite for the new exposed it to a stream of novel domestic objects that were often adopted, adapted, and embraced. Domestic things, the meanings embedded in them, and their potential to communicate social status contributed to giving the middle class its identity even in the most intimate of spaces. The impact of new imports, such as phonographs, on life at home as well as in marital disputes in the Hanafi court, shows the potential for new objects to redefine social relations, making taste more than just an individual matter.Less
This chapter looks at how objects that entered the middle-class home in the late nineteenth century generated a new kind of domesticity. Although its relation to public benefit remained ambiguous, the home was indirectly transformed by its changing urban environment and by new spatial ideals. In addition, Beirut’s prominence as port city and its growing appetite for the new exposed it to a stream of novel domestic objects that were often adopted, adapted, and embraced. Domestic things, the meanings embedded in them, and their potential to communicate social status contributed to giving the middle class its identity even in the most intimate of spaces. The impact of new imports, such as phonographs, on life at home as well as in marital disputes in the Hanafi court, shows the potential for new objects to redefine social relations, making taste more than just an individual matter.
Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824831820
- eISBN:
- 9780824868772
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824831820.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter explores the cinema’s ability to articulate the spatial disruptions of modernity. It considers how urban space became Japanese cinema’s crucial iconography, one that expressed the ...
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This chapter explores the cinema’s ability to articulate the spatial disruptions of modernity. It considers how urban space became Japanese cinema’s crucial iconography, one that expressed the contradictory impulses of Japanese modernity toward rationality and the equality of classes, as well as insufficiency and displacement. The chapter examines the intertextual links between the social project of Tokyo’s development and actual film texts and the ways in which a cinematic version of reconfigured space redefined urban dwellers as middle class in order to both manage the increased population and address a mass audience. Two central spaces for the urban middle class, “hometown” and “domestic space,” are discussed through analyses of films such as Izu Dancer (Izu no odoriko, 1933) and Everynight Dreams (Yogoto no yume, 1933).Less
This chapter explores the cinema’s ability to articulate the spatial disruptions of modernity. It considers how urban space became Japanese cinema’s crucial iconography, one that expressed the contradictory impulses of Japanese modernity toward rationality and the equality of classes, as well as insufficiency and displacement. The chapter examines the intertextual links between the social project of Tokyo’s development and actual film texts and the ways in which a cinematic version of reconfigured space redefined urban dwellers as middle class in order to both manage the increased population and address a mass audience. Two central spaces for the urban middle class, “hometown” and “domestic space,” are discussed through analyses of films such as Izu Dancer (Izu no odoriko, 1933) and Everynight Dreams (Yogoto no yume, 1933).
Chris McMorran
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824866693
- eISBN:
- 9780824876937
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824866693.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter investigates the idea of labor in the tourist industry as a form of feminist praxis in contemporary Japan. It centers on women working in traditional inns, or ryokan, which are found ...
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This chapter investigates the idea of labor in the tourist industry as a form of feminist praxis in contemporary Japan. It centers on women working in traditional inns, or ryokan, which are found around the country. Working as maids and servers, they are paid to reproduce gender ideologies that economically devalue women’s work and spatially fix it to domestic space. However, the job can also provide divorced, separated, or single women liberation from the institution of marriage and its associated reliance on a man, in part by providing a daily wage, a uniform, three meals a day, and a dormitory room. Moreover, employees disrupt conservative ideas about a woman’s place in Japan, using conventional femininity as a tool to create spaces for individual freedom and enrichment in the face of gender inequalities that remain throughout Japanese society.Less
This chapter investigates the idea of labor in the tourist industry as a form of feminist praxis in contemporary Japan. It centers on women working in traditional inns, or ryokan, which are found around the country. Working as maids and servers, they are paid to reproduce gender ideologies that economically devalue women’s work and spatially fix it to domestic space. However, the job can also provide divorced, separated, or single women liberation from the institution of marriage and its associated reliance on a man, in part by providing a daily wage, a uniform, three meals a day, and a dormitory room. Moreover, employees disrupt conservative ideas about a woman’s place in Japan, using conventional femininity as a tool to create spaces for individual freedom and enrichment in the face of gender inequalities that remain throughout Japanese society.
Rebecca Feasey
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748627974
- eISBN:
- 9780748651184
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748627974.003.0011
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
Lifestyle programming has its roots in the hobbyist or enthusiast strand of television that was popular in 1960s Britain. By the turn of the 1990s, lifestyle programming or ‘infotainment’ or ‘factual ...
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Lifestyle programming has its roots in the hobbyist or enthusiast strand of television that was popular in 1960s Britain. By the turn of the 1990s, lifestyle programming or ‘infotainment’ or ‘factual entertainment’ focused on fashion style and grooming, gardening, home improvement, cookery, travelling and other topics that appeal to the so-called ‘popular obsessions’. While the genre was once dedicated to female, contemporary shows have presented the male as the client and expert respectively. This chapter introduces the history of lifestyle programming and then focuses on the representations of masculinity in these narratives of transformation. It examines programmes that present men engaging in traditionally feminine activities – cooking, decorating, designing – prompting the consideration of how men might be using domestic space and activities to generate new masculine identities that challenge gendered and sexualised norms. The chapter also looks at programmes such as The Naked Chef and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, in order to consider the role of consumerism in contemporary masculinity and the ways in which domestic labour is being reclaimed as a masculine leisure activity.Less
Lifestyle programming has its roots in the hobbyist or enthusiast strand of television that was popular in 1960s Britain. By the turn of the 1990s, lifestyle programming or ‘infotainment’ or ‘factual entertainment’ focused on fashion style and grooming, gardening, home improvement, cookery, travelling and other topics that appeal to the so-called ‘popular obsessions’. While the genre was once dedicated to female, contemporary shows have presented the male as the client and expert respectively. This chapter introduces the history of lifestyle programming and then focuses on the representations of masculinity in these narratives of transformation. It examines programmes that present men engaging in traditionally feminine activities – cooking, decorating, designing – prompting the consideration of how men might be using domestic space and activities to generate new masculine identities that challenge gendered and sexualised norms. The chapter also looks at programmes such as The Naked Chef and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, in order to consider the role of consumerism in contemporary masculinity and the ways in which domestic labour is being reclaimed as a masculine leisure activity.
Mary s. Trent
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190458997
- eISBN:
- 9780190459024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190458997.003.0003
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
Grown men do not play with paper dolls; or, at least, they are not supposed to. Nevertheless, self-taught Chicago artist Henry Darger (1892–1973) worked over many decades to create an elaborate ...
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Grown men do not play with paper dolls; or, at least, they are not supposed to. Nevertheless, self-taught Chicago artist Henry Darger (1892–1973) worked over many decades to create an elaborate fictional world. This chapter examines a series of collage-paintings that Darger like created at mid-century to consider the significance of paper dolls to his art. It argues that domestic space and girlish crafts offered Darger opportunities for creative expression that were otherwise inaccessible to him in the public sphere due to his designation as a sexually degenerate man. In the privacy of his apartment, away from society’s judgments, Darger offered an alternative to the restrictive sexual norms of his time by celebrating ambiguously gendered children.Less
Grown men do not play with paper dolls; or, at least, they are not supposed to. Nevertheless, self-taught Chicago artist Henry Darger (1892–1973) worked over many decades to create an elaborate fictional world. This chapter examines a series of collage-paintings that Darger like created at mid-century to consider the significance of paper dolls to his art. It argues that domestic space and girlish crafts offered Darger opportunities for creative expression that were otherwise inaccessible to him in the public sphere due to his designation as a sexually degenerate man. In the privacy of his apartment, away from society’s judgments, Darger offered an alternative to the restrictive sexual norms of his time by celebrating ambiguously gendered children.
Gail Hershatter
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520267701
- eISBN:
- 9780520950344
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520267701.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter focuses on Chinese women's childhood memories of the chaotic Republican period and the arrival of the Communists in 1949. It relates the women's experiences of their unprotected mobility ...
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This chapter focuses on Chinese women's childhood memories of the chaotic Republican period and the arrival of the Communists in 1949. It relates the women's experiences of their unprotected mobility as the children of the poor, as refugees, child brides, and farmers in a society that regarded women's appearance outside of the domestic space as scandalous. It describes the picaresque adventures and terrible vulnerability of the refugee and future labor model Shan Xiuzhen and investigates why women's prerevolutionary confinement to the home has remained so enduring in spite of its obvious inaccuracy.Less
This chapter focuses on Chinese women's childhood memories of the chaotic Republican period and the arrival of the Communists in 1949. It relates the women's experiences of their unprotected mobility as the children of the poor, as refugees, child brides, and farmers in a society that regarded women's appearance outside of the domestic space as scandalous. It describes the picaresque adventures and terrible vulnerability of the refugee and future labor model Shan Xiuzhen and investigates why women's prerevolutionary confinement to the home has remained so enduring in spite of its obvious inaccuracy.
