| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-227) and index. |
| Contents |
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 ; 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 ; 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 ; 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Home -- Great Britain.
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Home. |
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Great Britain. |
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Dwellings -- Great Britain.
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Dwellings. |
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Housing -- Great Britain.
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Housing. |
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Families -- Great Britain.
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Families. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Chapman, Tony, 1953-
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Hockey, Jennifer Lorna.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ideal homes?. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415171210 (DLC) 98054119 (OCoLC)40444139 |
| ISBN |
0203029135 (electronic book) |
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9780203029138 (electronic book) |
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0415171210 (Cloth) |
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9780415171212 (Cloth) |
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0415171229 (Paper) |
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9780415171229 (Paper) |
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0203219503 |
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9780203219508 |
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1280332557 |
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9781280332555 |
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