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Extreme domesticity : a view from the margins /
"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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Gender and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Doing domesticity
- Shelter writing : desperate housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye
- Behind the curtain : domestic industry in Mary Barton
- Domesticity beyond sentiment : Edith Wharton, decoration, and divorce
- Bad girls of good housekeeping : Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart
- Undocumented homes : histories of dislocation in immigrant fiction
- Domesticity in extremis : homemaking by the unsheltered
- Conclusion : Dwelling-in-traveling, traveling-in-dwelling.