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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins
- Publication Date
- 2019-12-17
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780231166355
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Extreme Domesticity : a View from the Margins
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Subject
- Comparative Literature, Feminist, European / General, American / General
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Series
- Gender and Culture Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Weight
- 12.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231166354
ISBN-13
9780231166355
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038294663
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Extreme Domesticity : a View from the Margins
Publication Year
2019
Subject
Comparative Literature, Feminist, European / General, American / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Gender and Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
An imaginative and eye-opening reconceptualization of the idea of home. . . . Fraiman's close readings of detailed descriptions of housework give ordinary daily operations both dignity and value., In spirited and welcoming prose, Fraiman makes us rethink the ideological baggage the domestic realm carries, mainly in privileged, left-wing academic circles, and she leaves us contemplating how we--and various others--value, occupy, and adorn both real and imagined dwelling places., While amply acknowledging domesticity's historic constraints on women . . . Fraiman advocates for the empowering potential of homemaking for those who struggle to attain a home or who find it healing after trauma., In Extreme Domesticity , Susan Fraiman continues to perform the crucial task of challenging--in lucid, fervent prose--the "habitual, unthinking" conflations and repudiations that keep women, or the feminized, at the bottom of hierarchies of value. Using a refreshing range of sources, which includes queers, immigrants, and the homeless alongside the more usual "domestic" suspects, Fraiman sets forth a rethinking of domesticity's nature, purpose, location, and creators. It's a timely rethinking that we truly need now., Fraiman's nuanced readings reveal that domesticity can be, and has been, 'reconfigured as a language of female self-sufficiency, ambition, and pleasure.', Extreme Domesticity is a startlingly original work that not only offers a contemporary updating of feminist studies on domestic and sentimental fiction, but also establishes provocative new frameworks for understanding modern gender formations. A brilliant and important book!, In Extreme Domesticity , Susan Fraiman continues to perform the crucial task of challenging--in lucid, fervent prose--the "habitual, unthinking" conflations and repudiations which keep women, or the feminized, at the bottom of hierarchies of value. Using a refreshing range of sources, which includes queers, immigrants, and the homeless alongside the more usual "domestic" suspects, Fraiman sets forth a rethinking of domesticity's nature, purpose, location, and creators. It's a timely rethinking that we truly need now., This spirited book rescues housekeeping from its presumed ideological trappings by bringing a host of marginalized subjects back into view. Susan Fraiman demonstrates domesticity's strong creative pull for many working-class, immigrant, queer, divorced, or homeless subjects. Carefully probing a diverse array of homemaking experiences, along with the distinct challenges, comforts, and compensations domestic life can bring, Fraiman honors the rich meanings of home for those too often denied it. A surprising and welcome book., In spirited and welcoming prose, Fraiman makes us rethink the ideological baggage the domestic realm carries. . . . She leaves us contemplating how we--and various others--value, occupy, and adorn both real and imagined dwelling places., Extreme Domesticity brilliantly explores the homemaking practices that provide sustenance and shelter for the fierce and fragile lives of gender rebels and queer pioneers (even during times of homelessness). It is a lesson in how people find the tools for life-making amongst the ordinary and disregarded materials that surround them; and it is a dazzling excursion across dissident domesticities, A fresh view of domesticity . . . that comes out of dispossession and precarity, a domesticity carefully made out of wreckage and loss by those cast away or cast out.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
810.99287
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Doing Domesticity 1. Shelter Writing: Desperate Housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye 2. Behind the Curtain: Domestic Industry in Mary Barton 3. Domesticity Beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce 4. Bad Girls of Good Housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart 5. Undocumented Houses: Histories of Dislocation in Immigrant Fiction 6. Domesticity in Extremis: Homemaking by the Unsheltered Conclusion: Dwelling-in-Traveling, Traveling-in-Dwelling Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Susan Fraiman reformulates domesticity, freeing it from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings., 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 routines elaborated in the context of Victorian poverty, twentieth-century immigration, and new millennial homelessness. Far from being exclusively middle-class, domestic concerns are shown to be all the more urgent and ongoing when shelter is precarious. Fraiman's reformulation frees domesticity from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Fraiman's readings include novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Feinberg, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka; Edith Wharton's classic decorating guide; popular women's magazines; and ethnographic studies of homeless subcultures. Recognizing the labor and know-how needed to produce the space we call "home," Extreme Domesticity vindicates domestic practices and appreciates their centrality to everyday life. At the same time, it remains well aware of domesticity's dark side. Neither a romance of artisanal housewifery nor an apology for conservative notions of home, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings.
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- n***c (92)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseseller was communicative about my shipment, media mail took a while and tracking wasn't updated frequently, but seller communicated to me very quickly on status. the item came new and wrapped as described, though the packaging in it was packed wasn't sturdy and falling apart when it got to me.