Overview
- Presents experiences of a group of lesbians over 5 years
- Explores the multiple meanings of homes across cultures
- Looks at the domestic kitchen across time
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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This book explores the meanings and experiences of home among a group of lesbians who over the past five decades have sought to create alternative intimate and public living spaces. The protagonists who enact the ethnographic narrative are a small group of older lesbians, mainly feminist activists, residing in the metropolis of London. The meaning of home and domestic space emerges from unique life histories informed by the wider social and political context, and moves from the earliest memories of their childhood kitchens to their contemporary domestic lives.
Leaping from the radical lesbian feministcollectives and squats of the 1980s to the ordinariness of home life, the kitchen emerged as a tangle of cultural norms, customs, duties, ideas, aspirations, expectations, and values that tells us about the thinking process and behaviour of this specific group of older lesbians. In this context, the kitchen brings out the experiences of social inequalities experienced by these older lesbians, mainly brought out by the hegemonic institution of heteronormativity and patriarchy.
This ethnography will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines in anthropology, sociology, geography and feminism.
Leaping from the radical lesbian feministcollectives and squats of the 1980s to the ordinariness of home life, the kitchen emerged as a tangle of cultural norms, customs, duties, ideas, aspirations, expectations, and values that tells us about the thinking process and behaviour of this specific group of older lesbians. In this context, the kitchen brings out the experiences of social inequalities experienced by these older lesbians, mainly brought out by the hegemonic institution of heteronormativity and patriarchy.
This ethnography will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines in anthropology, sociology, geography and feminism.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Home and Sexuality
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The Domestic as a Tool for Ethnographic Inquiry
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The ‘Other’ Side of the Kitchen
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rachael M Scicluna is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Home and Sexuality
Book Subtitle: The 'Other' Side of the Kitchen
Authors: Rachael M Scicluna
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46038-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46037-0Published: 26 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-68976-7Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46038-7Published: 12 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 275
Number of Illustrations: 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Family, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging