Studying the modern home

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes See W. Rybczynski, Home: A Short History of an Idea (London, Heinemann, 1986). D. Miller, Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter (London and New York, Routledge, 1997). For a better understanding of the ‘conditions’ outlined here as being characteristics of the concept of ‘modernity’ see the following texts: M. Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (London, Verso, 1983), D. Riesman, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1970) and D. Slater, Consumer Culture and Modernity (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1997). See A. Forty, Objects of Desire (London, Thames and Hudson, 1986) and R. Schwartz Cowan, More work for Mother: The ironies of household technology from the open hearth to the microwave (New York, Basic Books, 1983). See J. Wolff, ‘Feminism and Modernism’ in Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1990) and A. Light, Forever England: Femininity, literature and conservatism between the wars (London and New York, Routledge, 1991). P. Sparke, As Long as It's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (London, Pandora, 1995). J. Butler, Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity (New York and London, Routledge, 1999). P. Bourdieu, Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste (London and New York, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986). G. Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (New York, Orion Press, 1964) and H. Lefebvre, The Production of Space (Oxford, Blackwell, 1991).