Title: Interesting and varied
Product review: This book consists of a collection of papers about people's images of home. The volume is divided into 4 parts: Changing images of the ideal home; Betwixt and between: homes in transition; Anxieties and risks: homes in danger; and Changing perceptions of home. The first part, changing images of the ideal home, focuses mainly on British homes and British attitudes towards home. Much of the remaining material, however, could easily be generalized to cover Western attitudes towards housing and home. Tony Chapman's paper "You've got him well trained': the negotiation of roles in the domestic sphere is a particularly well-done exploration into sources of social attitudes towards sharing housework. Overall, this book provides some extremely interesting vantage points of many different aspects of domestic life, especially in 21st century England. Anthropologists, sociologists, and feminists will all find something of interest in this book.
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