Review: The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II, by Stephen Vider

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Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II, by Stephen Vider The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II by Stephen Vider. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2021. 304 pp.; notes, index; clothbound, $95.00; paperback, $29.00; PDF $28.99. Julio Capó, Jr. Julio Capó, Jr. Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (2): 139–141. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.139 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Julio Capó; Review: The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II, by Stephen Vider. The Public Historian 1 May 2023; 45 (2): 139–141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.139 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Stephen Vider’s innovative new book, The Queerness of Home, offers a sweeping account of the centrality of the home and homemaking in challenging and renegotiating concepts of gender, sexuality, belonging, citizenship, and family, among many others, in the United States since the mid-twentieth century. Rather than viewing the home as a site of conformity, monotony, and tradition, Vider highlights the myriad ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have historically adapted homelife and homemaking to reflect, experiment, and express their diverse gender and sexual politics since World War II. With a strong theoretical foundation, Vider views domesticity and the practice of homemaking as a performance that requires interpretation and articulation by its individual actors. In this way, the very practice of homemaking has the potential to be radical in its ability to subvert, mediate, or destabilize gender and sexual norms, privacy, nationalism, and cultural citizenship. Vider’s... You do not currently have access to this content.