The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

Hussey, David/ Ponsonby, Margaret

Routledge（2016/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 252 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138252752
• DDC分類 643.10865209033

Full Description

The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century represents a new synthesis of gender history and material culture studies. It seeks to analyse the lives and cultural expression of single men and women from 1650 to 1850 within the main focus of domestic activity, the home. Whilst there is much scholarly interest in singleness and a raft of literature on the construction and apprehension of the home, no other book has sought to bring these discrete studies together. Similarly, scholarly work has been limited in evaluating gendered consumption practices during the long eighteenth century because of an emphasis on the homes of families. Analysing the practices of single people emphasises the differences, but also amplifies the similarities, in their strategies of domestic life.

Contents

Contents: Introduction; Being single; Singleness and homemaking: locating the single household; Organisation and management of a single household; Social and symbolic uses of the homes of single people; Compromised spaces: lodgers, boarders and shared domestic space; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.