Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins

by Susan Fraiman

Book Overview

Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231166354
• ISBN13: 9780231166355
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"