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List of illustrations | vii | |
Notes on contributors | viii | |
Preface | xi | |
1 | The ideal home as it is imagined and as it is lived | 1 |
Part I | Changing images of the ideal home | 15 |
2 | Privacy, security and respectability: the ideal Victorian home | 17 |
3 | The Modern house in England: an architecture of exclusion | 30 |
4 | Stage sets for ideal lives: images of home in contemporary show homes | 44 |
Part II | Betwixt and between: homes in transition | 59 |
5 | 'The more we are together': domestic space, gender and privacy | 61 |
6 | Travelling makes a home: mobility and identity among West Indians | 73 |
7 | A home from home: students' transitional experience of home | 84 |
8 | Fitting a quart into a pint pot: making space for older people in sheltered housing | 96 |
9 | The ideal of home: domesticating the institutional space of old age and death | 108 |
Part III | Anxieties and risks: homes in danger | 119 |
10 | A haven in a heartless world? Women and domestic violence | 121 |
11 | Spoiled home identities: the experience of burglary | 133 |
12 | Houses of Doom | 147 |
Part IV | Changing perceptions of home | 161 |
13 | 'You've got him well trained': The negotiation of roles in the domestic sphere | 163 |
14 | The meaning of gardens in an age of risk | 181 |
15 | Daring to be different? Choosing an alternative to the ideal home | 194 |
Bibliography | 210 | |
Index | 228 |
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