Book chapter
How Home Creates Us: Femininity, Memory, and Domestic Space
The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, pp 297-303
2024
Abstract
There is a private interior, for each of us, within the urban environment that acts as both mirror and projector. Digital identities are the tools that help us to position ourselves in relationship to gender and domesticity. As a culture, we have always been projectors of ourselves into the public via technology old and new, and the consumption of cultural products and images. This process involves technologies that have evolved from the nineteenth century until today. Our personal spatial constructs have historically been driven through aspiration, memory, and gender. Where is the boundary between public and private in the Urban Interior? This chapter explores the concept of gender roles and the urban conception of home-ness as it is refracted from the nineteenth-century prairie to the present Instagram apartments. Along the way, the modes of self-representation that we create within the feminine home are examined, as are the salient writings that the author contends are the real "influencers" in this space.
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- Title
- How Home Creates Us
- Creators
- Diana Nicholas
- Contributors
- Gregory Marinic (Editor)
- Publication Details
- The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, pp 297-303
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Architecture, Design, and Urbanism
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85187167293
- Other Identifier
- 991021873915104721