Queering the Interior (Home) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350116319 ISBN 13: 9781350116313

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Queering the Interior problematizes the familiar space of ‘home’. It deploys a queer lens to view domestic interiors and conventions and uncovers some of the complexities of homemaking for queer people.Each of the book’s six sections focuses on a different room or space inside the home. The journey starts with entryways, and continues through kitchens, living spaces, bedrooms, bathrooms, and finally, closets and studies. In each case up to three specialists bring their disciplinary expertise and queer perspectives to bear. The result is a fascinating collection of essays by scholars from literary studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, history and art history. The contributors use historical and sociological case studies; spatial, art and literary analyses; interviews; and experimental visual approaches to deliver fresh, detailed and grounded perspectives on the home and its queer dimensions. A highly creative approach to the analysis of domestic spaces, Queering the Interior makes an important contribution to the fields of gender studies, social and cultural history, cultural studies, design, architecture, anthropology, sociology, and cultural geography.

About this title

About the Author

Matt Cook is Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck University, UK. Andrew Gorman Murray is Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies at Western Sydney University, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350116319
• ISBN 13: 9781350116313
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Gorman-Murray Andrew, Cook Matt