Gender and Domestic Life: Changing Practices in Families and Households

Tensions about men's and women's contribution to home life are often close to the surface in domestic relationships. As a result, when arguments erupt it is common for people to draw on culturally embedded stereotypes to explain or justify what men and women should or should not do.Even in much of the sociological, feminist and men's studies literature, it is implicitly assumed that home life remains a woman's domain. As a consequence there has not, until now, been a wide-ranging analysis of gendered domestic practices available to students that critically compares men's and women's expectations and experiences fully.This book considers women's and men's domestic practices in a wide range of household types including: heterosexual couple, gay and lesbian, single people, older people, economic and cultural migrant, and communal households. It also explores the whole range of domestic practices including paid work, housework, childcare, leisure, managing and spending money and caring.The author argues that traditional gendered power relationships in the home are changing as women bring more economic resource into households and men express more interest in the project of domestic life. In doing so, the book explores the complex process of negotiation and compromise that occurs in all types of households as men and women attempt to match their expectations of what home life should be like, with the reality of everyday life.This thought-provoking book is ideal for anyone interested in debates concerning family life, gender and relationships, including students of Sociology, Gender Studies and Related Social Sciences.

Politics & Social Sciences

Chapman, Tony

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

Ideal Homes? shows how both popular images and experiences of home life relate to the ability of society's members to produce and respond to social change. The book provides for the first time an analysis of the space of the home and the experiences of home life by writers from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, architecture, geography and anthropology. It covers a range of subjects, including gender roles, different generations relationships to home, the changing nature of the family, transition and risk and alternative visions of home.

Ideal Homes?: Social Change and the Experience of the Home

Hockey, Jenny

Routledge

Accessible photo-essays give a lively introduction to the location, covering history and what makes the place buzz today; Listings of things to see include scenic places and towns, museums, galleries, great houses, castles and other leading attractions; 'Best of' list at the front, and value judgements within sight-seeing and eating/staying sections ensure you can cut to the top choices; Practical information and advice on getting around your destination by all forms of transport, with a special section on what to do when you first arrive; Back planning section gives advice on everything from weather and temperatures you will encounter, to currency and money issues, personal health and security, local post, phone and communications, opening times, media, best reading and films.

Aa Key Guide Australia

AA Publishing

Build a complete history of bridges, buildings, and major landmarks! Learn the history of famous buildings, bridges, and landmarks, and then build a three-dimensional model of each! There are 25 beautifully illustrated press-out models to build—everything from London's Tower Bridge to the Great Wall of China. Interesting facts and features are included about each structure and its place in history. Fun for the engineer in your life, or any world traveler!

Buildings, Bridges, and Landmarks: A Complete History: A Model-Making and Collector's Book in One

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Thunder Bay Press

This resource features more than 400 projections and colour illustrations augmented by MRI images for added detail to enhance the anatomy and positioning presentations. In three volumes, it covers preliminary steps in radiography, radiation protection and terminology, as well as anatomy and positioning information in separate chapters for each bone group or organ system.

Architecture 00: The Riba Awards

Ellipsis London Pr Ltd

The official guide to all of the RIBA awards, including the Stirling Prize announced on Channel 4 in October

Architecture 04: The Guide to the RIBA Awards (RIBA Guides)

Merrell Publishers

The Stirling Prize honours all the shortlisted and winning buildings from the first ten years of the award. Authoritative commentaries explain how each building was planned and constructed, and reveal the thoughts of the Stirling jury. In specially commissioned essays some of the best-known critics and commentators from the national and architectural press reflect on each year's prize and voice their own opinions on the shortlist.

The Stirling Prize: Ten Years of Architecture And Innovation

The Royal Institute of British Architects' annual awards celebrate a range of excellent current architecture throughout Britain and continental Europe. This book in an annual series describes and illustrates all the winners.

Architecture 06: The Guide to the Riba Awards (RIBA Guides)

This is the official annual guide to all the awards presented by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2007, including the prestigious televised Stirling Prize. This informative book features over 75 projects of all types worldwide by both established and emerging practices, offering a fascinating insight into recent developments in contemporary architecture. It: celebrates the best contemporary architecture worldwide by British architects; features over 75 projects, all described and evaluated in full, and illustrated in colour; includes special features on the buildings shortlisted for the Stirling Prize and full coverage of the RIBA Worldwide Awards; and, is an essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary architecture.

Architecture 07: The Guide to the Riba Awards (RIBA Guides)

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Gender and Domestic Life: Changing Practices in Families and Households

Gender and Domestic Life: Changing Practices in Families and Households

Ideal Homes?: Social Change and the Experience of the Home

Aa Key Guide Australia

Buildings, Bridges, and Landmarks: A Complete History: A Model-Making and Collector's Book in One

Architecture 00: The Riba Awards

Architecture 04: The Guide to the RIBA Awards (RIBA Guides)

The Stirling Prize: Ten Years of Architecture And Innovation

Architecture 06: The Guide to the Riba Awards (RIBA Guides)

Architecture 07: The Guide to the Riba Awards (RIBA Guides)