The domestic space reader

Chapter 1 Introduction 3

Chapter 2 The Idea of Home 17

2.1 'The House from Cellar to Garret. The Significance of the Hut' / Gaston Bachelard Bachelard, Gaston 19

2.2 'Building, Dwelling, Thinking' / Martin Heidegger Heidegger, Martin 21

2.3 'Social Space' / Henri Lefebvre Lefebvre, Henri 26

2.4 'Building, Dwelling, Living: How Animals and People Make Themselves at Home in the World' / Tim Ingold Ingold, Tim 31

2.5 'The Berber House or the World Reversed' / Pierre Bourdieu Bourdieu, Pierre 35

2.6 'Domestications of Islam in Modern Egypt: A Cultural Analysis' / Juan Eduardo Campo Campo, Juan Eduardo 40

2.7 'House and Home: Identity, Dichotomy, or Dialectic? (With Special Reference to Mexico)' / David Stea Stea, David 45

2.8 'The Idea of a Home: A Kind of Space' / Mary Douglas Douglas, Mary 50

2.9 'Rethinking Place: Thoughts on Spaces of the Home, Absence, Presence, New Connections and New Anxieties' / Linda McDowell McDowell, Linda 54

2.10 'A Feeling of Absence from Old England: The Colonial Bungalow' / William J. Glover Glover, William J. 59

2.11 Loud Women: Creating Community from the Domestic in Amazonia (An Anthropological View) / Alan Passes Passes, Alan 65

Chapter 3 Interiors 73

3.1 'A House for the Soul' / Joseph Rykwert Rykwert, Joseph 77

3.2 'The Spatiality of the Roman Domestic Setting: An Interpretation of Symbolic Content' / Clive Knights Knights, Clive 79

3.3 "The Aristocratic Households of Feudal France: Communal Living' / Georges Duby Duby, Georges 83

3.4 'Intimacy and Privacy' / Witold Rybczynski Rybczynski, Witold 88

3.5 The Burmese House / Ma Thanegi Thanegi, Ma 91

3.6 'Looking for the Interior' / Frances Borzello Borzello, Frances 94

3.7 'The Family Apartments' / Robert Kerr Kerr, Robert 100

3.8 'Louis-Philippe or the Interior' / Walter Benjamin Benjamin, Walter 103

3.9 'Domestic Atmospheres' / Alain Corbin Corbin, Alain 105

3.10 'Seeing through Paris' / Sharon Marcus Marcus, Sharon 108

3.11 The New Interior Decoration: An Introduction to Its Principles, and International Survey of Its Methods / Dorothy Todd Todd, Dorothy, Raymond Mortimer Mortimer, Raymond 112

3.12 'Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie' / Dolores Hayden Hayden, Dolores 114

3.13 Purity and Danger from a Japanese Perspective: Culture and House Plan / Ritsuko Ozaki Ozaki, Ritsuko 116

Chapter 4 House/Body/Psyche 121

4.1 'The Body as House' / Marjorie Garber Garber, Marjorie 123

4.2 'Childbirth at Home' / Annmarie Adams Adams, Annmarie 127

4.3 Woman as Decoration / Emily Burbank Burbank, Emily 130

4.4 'A House of Fiction: Domestic Interiors and the Commodity Aesthetic' / Jean-Christophe Agnew Agnew, Jean-Christophe 133

4.5 Memories, Dreams, Reflections / Carl Gustav Jung Jung, Carl Gustav 135

4.6 'The Uncanny' / Sigmund Freud Freud, Sigmund 138

4.7 The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely / Anthony Vidler Vidler, Anthony 141

4.8 '"Water and Gas on All Floors": Notes on the Extraneousness of the Home' / Georges Teyssot Teyssot, Georges 147

Chapter 5 Gendered Spaces 151

5.1 'The Meanings of Domesticity' / Bart Verschaffel Verschaffel, Bart 153

5.2 'In Possession: Men, Women, and Decoration' / Deborah Cohen Cohen, Deborah 157

5.3 'The Architectural Consequences of Women' / Basil D. Nicholson Nicholson, Basil D. 160

5.4 'Taking Amusement Seriously: Modern Design in the Twenties' / Christopher Reed Reed, Christopher 162

5.5 'Bronte House Scheme' / Richard A.H. Livett Livett, Richard A.H. 168

5.6 'The Lair of the Bachelor' / George Wagner Wagner, George 170

5.7 Queer Domesticities / Matt Cook Cook, Matt 173

5.8 'The Architectural Relationship between Gender, Race, and the Bolivian State / Marcia Stephenson Stephenson, Marcia 180

5.9 'Essential Objects and the Sacred: Interior and Exterior Space in Urban Greek Locality' / Renée Hirschon Hirschon, Renée 186

5.10 'House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme' / Iris Marion Young Young, Iris Marion 190

5.11 'Cleansing Dislocation: To Make Life, Do Laundry' / Aritha Van Herk Herk, Aritha Van 194

Chapter 6 Home Parts 199

6.1 'Chimneys and Privacy' / John E. Crowley Crowley, John E. 203

6.2 'The Philosophy of Furniture / Edgar Allan Poe Poe, Edgar Allan 206

6.3 'Structures of Interior Design' / Jean Baudrillard Baudrillard, Jean 210

6.4 'Bric-à-Brac' / Edith Wharton Wharton, Edith, Ogden Codman Codman, Ogden 214

6.5 'Earth-Closets' / Catharine E. Beecher Beecher, Catharine E., Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Harriet Beecher 217

6.6 A Short History of the Newest and Sometimes Smallest Room / Katherine Ashenburg Ashenburg, Katherine 221

6.7 'The Nurseries and the Schoolroom' / Mrs C.S. Peel Peel, Mrs C.S. 224

6.8 'On Behavior in the Bedroom' / Norbert Elias Elias, Norbert 225

6.9 'Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen' / Mrs Isabella Beeton Beeton, Mrs Isabella 230

6.10 'Frankfurt Kitchen, 1926-7. Designed by Grete Lihotsky (Margarete Schütte-Lihotsky; 1897 Vienna-2000 Vienna). From the Am Höhenblick Housing Estate, Ginnheim, Frankfurt' / Christopher Wilk Wilk, Christopher 233

6.11 '"Out of My Kitchen!" Architecture, Gender and Domestic Efficiency' / Irene Cieraad Cieraad, Irene 236

6.12 Interviewed by Kathy Mezei, 2009. The Telephone and the Radio Enter the Home / Stephen Kline Kline, Stephen 238

6.13 'What's "Home" Got to Do with It? Contradictory Dynamics in the Domestication of Technology and the Dislocation of Domesticity' / David Morley Morley, David 241

Chapter 7 Liminal Spaces 247

7.1 'The Bridge and the Door' / Georg Simmel Simmel, Georg 249

7.2 'Interior' / Beatriz Colomina Colomina, Beatriz 251

7.3 'Birth of the House' / Olivier Marc Marc, Olivier 256

7.4 'Telling Places: The House as Social Architecture' / Joëlle Bahloul Bahloul, Joëlle 259

7.5 'Toward an Architectural Vocabulary: The Porch as a Between / Robert Mugerauer Mugerauer, Robert 264

7.6 'The Garden as Occasional Domestic Space' / Catherine Alexander Alexander, Catherine 268

7.7 'So Having Ordered My Berth I Lay Me Down to Rest'; Ships and Trains: Travelling Home / Emma Robinson-Tomsett Robinson-Tomsett, Emma 273

7.8 Vancouver's Laneway Houses: Changing Notions of Home / Patrick Chan Chan, Patrick 278

Chapter 8 Contested Spaces 285

8.1 The Home, Its Work and Influence / Charlotte Perkins Gilman Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 287

8.2 'Living on Display: Colonial Visions of Aboriginal Domestic Spaces' / Paige Raibmon Raibmon, Paige 289

8.3 '"Come in the Dark": Domestic Workers and Their Rooms in Apartheid-Era Johannesburg, South Africa' / Rebecca Ginsburg Ginsburg, Rebecca 294

8.4 Towards a New Architecture / Le Corbusier Corbusier, Le 300

8.5 'Planned Assaults: Reflections on the Detached House' / Lars Lerup Lerup, Lars 303

8.6 'A Cast in Time' / Richard Shone Shone, Richard 305

8.7 'Heimat, Modernity, and Exile' / David Morley Morley, David 309

8.8 'Taming Space: Drug Use, HIV, and Homemaking in Downtown Eastside Vancouver' / Leslie Robertson Robertson, Leslie 314

Chapter 9 Literary Spaces 321

9.1 House Haunting: The Domestic Novel of the Interwar Years / Chiara Briganti Briganti, Chiara, Kathy Mezei Mezei, Kathy 325

9.2 'Gendering Rooms: Domestic Architecture and Literary Arts' / Cynthia Wall Wall, Cynthia 330

9.3 'Jane Eyre's Interior Design' / Karen Chase Chase, Karen 335

9.4 Dwelling with Dickens and Heidegger / Julian Wolfreys Wolfreys, Julian 339

9.5 Expositions: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France / Philippe Hamon Hamon, Philippe 343

9.6 The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms That Shaped Them / Diana Fuss Fuss, Diana 346

9.7 Woman's Theatrical Space / Hanna Scolnicov Scolnicov, Hanna 349

9.8 Interiors and Interiority in Nineteenth-Century India / Supriya Chaudhuri Chaudhuri, Supriya 351

9.9 'The World and the Home' / Homi K. Bhabha Bhabha, Homi K. 358

9.10 A Room in the City: Woman, Interiority, and Post-colonial Korean Fiction / Jini Kim Watson Watson, Jini Kim 363

9.11 Domestic Spaces in Children's Fantasy Literature / Wendy Thompson Thompson, Wendy 367

9.12 Designs for a Happy Home: A Novel in Ten Interiors / Matthew Reynolds Reynolds, Matthew 371.