Week Five (Feb 14) - 'Home' and Domestic Space

Jessica Rodrigue, 'Family Photos' (2007)

Readings for today

• Lynn Spigel "The Home Theater," in Make Room For TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
• Setha M. Low, "The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear," American Anthropologist, Vol. 103, No. 1 (2001): 45-58.
• Samantha Barbas, "Just Like Home: 'Home Cooking' and the Domestication of the American Restaurant," Gastronomica, Vol 2, No. 4 (2002): 43-52.
• Click HERE for a zip file of the above readings. 

For further reading & research:

• Dolores Hayden, "Two Utopian Feminists and Their Campaigns for Kitchenless Houses," Signs, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1978), pp. 274-290.
• Kimberley W. Carrell, "The Industrial Revolution Comes to the Home: Kitchen Design Reform and Middle-Class Women," Journal of American Culture, Fall79, Vol. 2 Issue 3 (Fall 1979): 488-499.