{"product_id":"extreme-domesticity-susan-fraiman-9780231166355","title":"Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins","description":"\u003cp\u003eDomesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in \u003ci\u003eExtreme Domesticity\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions of family. Her book links terms often seen as antithetical: domestic knowledge coinciding with female masculinity, feminism, and divorce; domestic routines elaborated in the context of Victorian poverty, twentieth-century immigration, and new millennial homelessness. Far from being exclusively middle-class, domestic concerns are shown to be all the more urgent and ongoing when shelter is precarious. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFraiman's reformulation frees domesticity from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Fraiman's readings include novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Feinberg, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka; Edith Wharton's classic decorating guide; popular women's magazines; and ethnographic studies of homeless subcultures. Recognizing the labor and know-how needed to produce the space we call \"home,\" \u003ci\u003eExtreme Domesticity\u003c\/i\u003e vindicates domestic practices and appreciates their centrality to everyday life. At the same time, it remains well aware of domesticity's dark side. Neither a romance of artisanal housewifery nor an apology for conservative notions of home, \u003ci\u003eExtreme Domesticity\u003c\/i\u003e stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic meanings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Fraiman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231166354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231166355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.70d","brand":"Susan Fraiman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372291150079,"sku":"9780231166355","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7ee089b0-ea02-469b-8536-503528b3a7db.jpg?v=1732725541","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/extreme-domesticity-susan-fraiman-9780231166355","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}