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Author Fraiman, Susan, author.

Title Extreme domesticity : a view from the margins / Susan Fraiman.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages).
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Series Gender and culture
Gender and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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 notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines elaborated in the context of Victorian poverty, twentieth-century immigration, and new millennial homelessness. Far from being exclusively middle-class, domestic concerns are shown to be all the more urgent and ongoing when shelter is precarious. Fraiman's reformulation frees domesticity from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Fraiman's readings include novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Feinberg, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka; Edith Wharton's classic decorating guide; popular women's magazines; and ethnographic studies of homeless subcultures. Recognizing the labor and know-how needed to produce the space we call "home," Extreme Domesticity vindicates domestic practices and appreciates their centrality to everyday life. At the same time, it remains well aware of domesticity's dark side. Neither a romance of artisanal housewifery nor an apology for conservative notions of home, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings." -- Publisher's description
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Language In English.
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Women and literature.
Women and literature.
Domestic relations in literature.
Domestic relations in literature.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors.
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Women authors.
Home in literature.
Home in literature.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Fraiman, Susan. Extreme domesticity. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] 9780231166348 (DLC) 2016022755 (OCoLC)950447815
ISBN 9780231543750 (electronic book)
0231543751 (electronic book)
9780231166348 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0231166346 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
Standard No. 10.7312/frai16634