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Showing 1 to 20 of 170 for “"domesticity"”.
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Dwelling : a figural exploration of domesticity
This thesis seeks to re-establish the necessity for specialized, figured spaces. Through the lens of the domestic sphere, the rooms become chambers of reflection, contemplation, and intimacy. The architecture is inspired by spatial hierarchies of carving, that is to say, labyrinthine undergrounds …
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Domesticity And Masculinity In 1950s British Painting
This thesis examines how men experienced domesticity in the 1950s in Britain and analyses the role that artistic representations play in the expression and formulation of this masculine selfhood in this context. It considers domesticity at this historical moment as an inherently flexible concept: …
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Spaces of Resistance: Reflections on Algerian Domesticity
The thesis explores the role of Algerian domesticity in designing culturally, socially, and environmentally resonant spaces. This research engages critically with the legacy of French colonial housing projects in Algiers by confronting colonial practices that disregarded the cultural and social …
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Houses without doors : diffusing domesticity in Die Bos
This ethnography is the product of fourteen months of communication with residents of a squatter settlement near Somerset West in the Western Cape. The thesis explores the ways in which domestic relationships altered over the research period, locating these changing patterns in the contexts of …
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Objects That Endure: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Seasonal Domesticity
For many, the concept of home is synonymous with safety and continuity; this security is tied to both the idea of home and its materiality. This can be seen by various cultural preoccupations with amassing possessions. In the chapter entitled “Home as Stage” found in Household Gods: The British and …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
… evaluate the entanglement of the uncanny, space, domesticity and femininity in the context of Gothic literature and photography. These four objects can only be read in their interplay with each other and how they each function as structural principles in the framework of Gothic fiction and …
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Deleveraging domesticity : incremental design forays on middle income housing
Housing today has little do with architecture. Design is a currency of services, while housing today is intensively packaged as a consumer good. It is packaged with land as speculative real-estate, and bundled abstractly into mortgage-backed securities for trade in global investment markets. Both …
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Damp Skin: Portraits of Taiwanese Domesticity, Resilience, and Otherness
… narratives. It examines Taiwanese domesticity through the dual prisms of “dampness” and “enclosure failure” to reveal how these elements influence or fail to meet Taiwanese people’s physical comfort and needs. Central to this research is exploring the historical marginalization of …
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Domesticity, Manhood, and the Natural Environment in Antebellum American Literature
Discussions of masculinity, the natural environment, or domestic culture are relatively common in antebellum literary scholarship, but this dissertation explores the less commonly discussed connections among these three areas of study. Likewise, ecofeminist scholars have done groundbreaking work …
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Dogs and Domesticity Reading the Dog in Victorian British Visual Culture
… with the Victorian moral values and ideals of domesticity in urban environments. These values and their relation to the dog are explored through the framework of the social history of art. Seen through this methodology, this thesis allows the relationship between canine debates, social …
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Enabling housing : dwelling + home + domesticity; typology + specificity + site; chaos + complexity + control
… general areas of inquiry focused the research: domesticity as a cultural artifact, and exploration of chaology, the nascent science which already has shattered our confidence in LaPlacian models at many levels wherein they had been implicitly assumed to be operative. Recognition of chaos, …
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Antipodal England: Emigration, gender, and portable domesticity in Victorian literature and culture
… the performance of what I call "portable domesticity," or the transplantation of British national identity through the replication of British domestic values and practices aboard emigrant ships and in Australia. I argue that even as portable domesticity reinforces the values of British …
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At home in the metropole : gender and domesticity in contemporary migration fiction
… colonial and postcolonial politics of home and domesticity as discursive resources in their narratives of cross-cultural encounter, challenging the devaluation of the private sphere as a static, unproductive and uncreative space. I unpack how these texts engage with the domestic as a material …
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Black Feminist Poiesis: Locating “The Uses of the Erotic” Within Black Domesticity
<p>What does being human mean for women who were artists denied the ability to live life on their own standards? What did it mean to live a creative life when your body was captured and held within a system that surveilled and penalized you for things like writing, reading, or the idea of creating …
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Towards a Deregulated Domesticity: The Making of 'Homes for Today and Tomorrow'
… Morris standards in shaping the production of domesticity in Britain. Tracing the complex interplay of state policy and market forces this thesis aims to contribute, on the one hand to an understanding of social histories of domesticity and housing in post-war Britain, and on the other hand to …
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Masculine Domesticity in the Mining West: An Archaeological Investigation at Coloma Ghost Town
The recovery of a scorifier, or roasting dish, at Feature 131 in Coloma, Montana led to the theory that the feature represented an assayer’s household. Historical documentation, in the form of a personal diary, revealed that the assayer at Coloma, Chester Pray, shared a cabin with another man. This …
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Masculine Domesticity in the Mining West: An Archaeological Investigation at Coloma Ghost Town
The recovery of a scorifier, or roasting dish, at Feature 131 in Coloma, Montana led to the theory that the feature represented an assayer’s household. Historical documentation, in the form of a personal diary, revealed that the assayer at Coloma, Chester Pray, shared a cabin with another man. This …
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Fictions of American domesticity: indigenous women, white women, and the nation, 1850-1950
Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:16:36-05:00 Original Data Group with Access Administrator Release Date: 2015-05-28 14:21:22 UTC Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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