Fugitive Living: Social Mobility and Domestic Space in Julia Frankau’s The Heart of a Child

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-130
Author(s):  
Lisa C. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Unmarried Woman ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
New Models ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Slum Fiction

This chapter examines Julia Frankau’s The Heart of a Child (1908) a novel that documents a poor orphan’s social ascent. Despite the protagonist’s experience of a range of new models of domestic life – including model dwellings, a ‘home for working girls’, and an apartment (based on the Artillery Mansions in Victoria) – she remains circumscribed at each stage by her status as an unmarried woman. This novel’s satirical engagement with slum fiction reveals that all women’s lives are shaped by domestic insecurity – even if they are shaped differently.

The Hoover® in the Garden: Middle-Class Women and Suburbanization, 1850–1920

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Miller
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Domestic Consumption ◽  
Household Technology ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Women's Lives

Between 1850 and 1920 the roles of women were dramatically transformed. As participation in public activities became more socially, politically, and economically feasible, changes in domestic life limited the ability of many middle-class women to take advantage of these opportunities. The three processes of suburbanization, growth of social mobility, and an industrial economy increasingly based on domestic consumption, including innovations in household technology, all had the potential to unburden and enrich women's lives. Interrelationships among the three processes, however, worked to the detriment of some middle-class women with limited financial resources. A structurationist perspective is used to examine the interrelationships between social processes that affected women and the responses of individual women to these processes. The role of ideology, which made it acceptable for some middle-class women to do domestic work in 1920, whereas the opposite was true in 1850, is singled out for special attention.

scholarly journals Materializing Memory, Mood, and Agency: The Emotional Geographies of the Modern Kitchen

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Meah
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
The Uk

Drawing upon narrative and visual ethnographic data collected from households in the UK, this article explores the material and emotional geographies of the domestic kitchen. Acknowledging that emotions are dynamically related and co-constitutive of place, rather than presenting the kitchen as a simple backdrop against which domestic life is played out, the article illustrates how decisions regarding the design and layout of the kitchen and the consumption of material artefacts are central to the negotiation and doing of relationships and accomplishment of domestic life. Based on fieldwork in northern England, the article examines the affective potential of domestic space and its material culture, exploring how individuals are embodied in the fabric and layout of domestic space, and how memories may be materialized in their absence.

Forty years of IKEA kitchens and the rise of a neoliberal control of domestic space

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Ledin ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Life Itself

This article uses a social semiotic approach to look at the representations and designs of kitchens in the IKEA catalogue from 1975 until 2016. The authors find a shift from function to lifestyle of the order observed by scholars of advertising. But using Fairclough’s concepts of ‘technologization’ in Discourse and Social Change (1992) and Van Leeuwen’s New Writing (2006) concept, they are able to dig deeper to show that there are four stages of kitchen that become, they argue, more and more codified, with increasing prescription over the meaning of space and also regarding what takes place there. Such coding aligns with the ideas, values and identities of neoliberalism: ‘flexible’, ‘dynamic’, ‘creative’, ‘solutions’ and ‘self-management’. The authors show how the features of New Writing allow a suppression of actual causalities and context, and permit symbolic and indexical meanings to take over. Domestic life itself becomes technologized, coded and stripped down to a number of symbols and indexical meanings which assemble easily into the requirements of the neoliberal order.

scholarly journals Extreme dwelling: Assembling domus horribilis

2021 ◽  
pp. 174165902110046
Author(s):  
Elaine Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Relational Dynamics ◽  
Residential Life ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Alternative Set ◽  
Cultural Media

10 Rillington Place names the site of temporally extensive practices of murder (1943–1953), and offers an empirical entry point for critically advancing the conceptual innovations of relational approaches to the criminological study of ‘home’. In so doing, the paper, firstly, (re)conceptualises serial homicide as practice, more specifically as a mode of domestic labour which materialises in and is enacted through the relational dynamics of everyday residential life; and secondly, rejects the notion of ‘home’ and argues for the concept of dwelling to better capture the active, generative and fluid dynamics of domestic life. This subtle shift in conceptual approach acknowledges how domus horribilis is etched from, and woven through the topological entanglements of everyday and extreme practices, and moves us toward an alternative set of conceptual commitments in our research of domestic space. Drawing from a mixed portfolio of cultural media (including archival, epistolary, journalistic, photographic, filmic, architectural, museological and dramaturgical data), the paper takes forward Schatzki’s site ontology as an organising framework for practice-based analytics, and advances the critical insights of an embryonic criminology of the domestic.

Teaching Britain

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Bischof
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Models ◽  
Intimate Knowledge

Teaching Britain examines teachers as key agents in the production of social knowledge. Teachers claimed intimate knowledge of everyday life among the poor and working class at home and non-white subjects abroad. They mobilized their knowledge in a wide range of mediums, from accounts of local happenings in their schools’ official log books to travel narratives based on summer trips around Britain and the wider world. Teachers also obsessively narrated and reflected on their own careers. Through these stories and the work they did every day, teachers imagined and helped to enact new models of professionalism, attitudes towards poverty and social mobility, ways of thinking about race and empire, and roles for the state. As highly visible agents of the state and beneficiaries of new state-funded opportunities, teachers also represented the largesse and the reach of the liberal state—but also the limits of both.

Social Mobility and Education in Britain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erzsébet Bukodi ◽  
John H. Goldthorpe
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility

PROMOTING ATTENTIONAL HEALTH: IMPORTANCE TO WOMEN'S LIVES

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Stark ◽  
Bernadine Cimprich
Keyword(s):  
Women's Lives

Review of New models for mass communication research.

1975 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 431-432
Author(s):  
ANTHONY G. GREENWALD
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
New Models
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