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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"domestic life"”.
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The role of computer mediated environment and simulations in mediating consumers' personal and domestic life-worlds
… consumption of these simulations impact on their lifeworlds. Drawing heavily upon Jean Baudrillard’s conceptions of simulacra and hyperreality, it argues that consumers adapt to the differences between simulated and real worlds, by accepting the replacement of tangibles by simulations, and by …
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Necessary Fire
In this collection the poet explores the gyre of domestic life and specifically how this complex and paradoxical storm pulls women/wives/mothers in many directions at the same time. Using a variety of motifs including glass, water, fire, and bodies, she writes about the deluge of joy, grief, fear, …
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Catherine Opie's Domestic Series
… photography in her photographic series titled Domestic. At the center of this series lies the idea of community and the question of how community is constructed, a theme which unites Opie’s seemingly disparate bodies of work. Domestic depicts lesbians from across the United States in scenes of …
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Roman Slavery: A Study of Roman Society and Its Dependence on slaves.
… examples of slave use in various areas of Roman life. The areas covered include agriculture, industry, domestic life, the state, entertainment, intellectual life, military, religion, and the use of female slaves. A look at manumission demonstrates Rome's growing awareness of this dependence. …
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Woven Into the Stuff of Other Men's Lives: The Treatment of the Dead in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland.
… ranging from formal cemeteries to occupied domestic sites. This data-set, despite its limitations, forms the basis for a new understanding of funerary treatment and daily life in later prehistoric Atlantic Scotland, signifying the development of an extraordinary range of different methods of …
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THE JOY IS IN THE PATTERN
… orchestrated, patterned paintings depicting domestic interiors with bold, flat, layered planes of color, repeated motifs, and a shallow sense of space. Pattern is everywhere I look - in nature, decorative home furnishings, on clothing, animals, etc. I love pattern and my paintings reflect the …
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Infiltrating Montreal through the apartment-hotel: the anticipated mystery and strange familiarity of inhabiting the visited city
… celebrates the sequencing and ritual of everyday life, the oportment-hotel speaks of the tension between the transient nature of accommodation architecture and the permanence of urban domestic life. Its programmatic elements reveal to visitors the unknown domestic spaces of the visited city for …
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"Inside that fortress sat a few peasant men, and it was half-made": a study of 'Viking' fortifications in the British Isles, AD793-1066
… much to archaeologists about the Viking way of life. The popular representation of these Scandinavian seafarers is often as drunken, bloodthirsty heathens who rampaged across Britain leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Excavations at Coppergate, York and Dublin however, show that the …
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A Band of Sisters: Female Detectives, Authority, and Fiction from 1864 to the 1930s
… that they would not normally have in an everyday domestic life. Many of these types of authorities appear at the same time in single works, often creating differing and competing attitudes within and about these stories and characters.</p>
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Interacting With Domestic Objects: How Men in India Create a Sense of Home Away from Home
… men in India construct a sense of home through domestic objects and spatial practices within temporary living spaces. Drawing on insights from material culture, anthropology, sociology, architecture, gender study and migration theory, this study explores home-making as an ongoing practice …
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Surviving the Seventies: How Ten East Texan Women Labored for Their Families
… and social turmoil. Many women left the domestic sphere and entered public life to work, seek higher education, and pursue a career. Yet many factors worked against them. They entered a workforce that treated them poorly or went to a university with limited degrees for women. The …
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A complex order for industry : design of an urban factory
Whereas the separation of work from domestic life introduced during the industrial revolution has brought enormous increases in productivity through the division of labor, the cultural cost of this fracture for society is still underestimated. Some of the initial reasons for the phenomenon, namely …
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A challenge to contextualize an architectural intervention in an historic city : case study : Madinat al-Zahra
… which is still relevant to the contemporary domestic life in the region. Today, only 10% of the city has been excavated. This thesis demonstrates the significance of context-specific responses in historic settings by designing and inserting an architectural intervention that responds to …
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Objects, emotions, and the household in Renaissance Prague, c.1570-1620
… to this literature. It examines emotions and the lifecycle in Renaissance Prague – a vibrant, intriguing, and often-overlooked city that had housed Europe’s first Reformation only a century before. In Prague, as elsewhere in Europe, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period in which …
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Childless Women in the Plays of William Inge, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee
… By turning to the perceived security of domestic life and traditional family values following the upheaval of war, many Americans created a cultural mandate that emphasized marriage and parenthood as essential to success, happiness, even national patriotism.</p> <p>This study argues that …
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The found object and the presentation of everyday life.
… to my own work, and identify the impact that my domestic life and past experiences have had on my own artistic compulsions. I also discuss the range of art concepts that I have found myself working within, including the practice of Spolia, Appropriation, Categorisation, Endurance and Ritual art, …
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Serial Killer: Gustave Flaubert's Pro-Woman, Woman-Killing <i>Madame Bovary</i>
… the impossible conditions of womanhood and domestic life in nineteenth century France. Further, I will expose the ways in which Flaubert, through these killings, aims to release his woman characters from their lives of oppression and imprisonment, detailing their increasingly limited options …
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Lusty Rebels and Lonely Men: Interrogating 1950s Masculinity in the Films of Nicholas Ray
… The postwar struggle for veterans to adjust to domestic life and the violent effects of post-traumatic stress are embodied by Dixon Steele in In a Lonely Place. The rodeo men in The Lusty Men are performers themselves, and they struggle to reconcile their rugged Western masculinity with an …
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