Abstract
Gender is a key framework for understanding meanings of home. The residential home is normalised as a woman’s domain, but nuanced interpretations account for both masculine and feminine domestic correlations. These gendered meanings of home are pliable, moreover, since gender is socially constructed and individuals negotiate shifting masculine and feminine norms. This article charts flexible gendered meanings of home across three themes: gendered experiences of home ensuing from the ideology of separate spheres; gendered divisions of domestic labour in heteronuclear households; and gendered meanings in nonconventional homes of single occupiers and sexual minorities.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Vol. 4 |
| Editors | Susan J. Smith |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pages | 251-256 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780080471716 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780080471631 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Bachelor
- Breadwinner
- Domesticity
- Femininity
- Gay
- Gender
- Handyman
- Home
- Homemaker
- Housewife
- Lesbian
- Masculinity
- Same-sex couple
- Spinster
