Homes And Homecomings Gendered Histories Of Domesticity And Return K H Adler by K. H. Adler, Carrie Hamilton 9781444328240, 9781444336504, 1444328247, 1444336509 instant download after payment.

• Provides inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings
• Takes an historical approach to a subject area that is surprisingly little historicised
• Features original research from a group of international scholars
• The book has an international approach that focuses on Africa, Asia, the Americas and East and West Europe
• Contains original illustrations of homes in a variety of historical contexts

Content:
Chapter 1 Communist Comfort: Socialist Modernism and the Making of Cosy Homes in the Khrushchev Era (pages 11–44): Susan E. Reid
Chapter 2 Corporate Domesticity and Idealised Masculinity: Royal Naval Officers and their Shipboard Homes, 1918–39 (pages 45–65): Quintin Colville
Chapter 3 Men Making Home: Masculinity and Domesticity in Eighteenth?Century Britain (pages 66–86): Karen Harvey
Chapter 4 ‘Who Should Be the Author of a Dwelling?’ Architects versus Housewives in 1950s France (pages 87–105): Nicole Rudolph
Chapter 5 Ideal Homes and the Gender Politics of Consumerism in Postcolonial Ghana, 1960–70 (pages 106–121): Bianca Murillo
Chapter 6 ‘The Dining Room Should Be the Man's Paradise, as the Drawing Room Is the Woman's’: Gender and Middle?Class Domestic Space in England, 1850–1910 (pages 122–137): Jane Hamlett
Chapter 7 ‘There Is Graite Odds between a Mans being at Home and a Broad’: Deborah Read Franklin and the Eighteenth?Century Home (pages 138–153): Vivian Bruce Conger
Chapter 8 Sexual Politics and Socialist Housing: Building Homes in Revolutionary Cuba (pages 154–173): Carrie Hamilton
Chapter 9 ‘The White Wife Problem’: Sex, Race and the Contested Politics of Repatriation to Interwar British West Africa (pages 174–192): Carina E. Ray
Chapter 10 From Husbands and Housewives to Suckers and Whores: Marital?Political Anxieties in the ‘House of Egypt’, 1919–48 (pages 193–215): Lisa Pollard
Chapter 11 Double Displacement: Western Women's Return Home from Japanese Internment in the Second World War (pages 216–230): Christina Twomey