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.
Author(s): Matt Cook; Andrew Gorman-Murray; Rosie Cox; Victor Buchli
Series: Home
Edition: First
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 250
City: Abingdon, Oxon
Tags: queer, lgbt, politics, aesthetics, interior design, law, gender
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
SECTION ONE Openings
1 'Thrown-togetherness': Queering the Interior in Visual Perspectives
2 Entering the Living Room: Sex, Space and Power in a Cross-Cultural and Non-Heteronormative Context
3 Stepping into the Entrance Hallway: Glimpses of Public, Private and Personal Notions of Self
SECTION TWO Kitchens
4 The Kitchen: Lesbian Pulp Fiction's Radical Conventionalism
5 Kitchens: Queering the 'Man's' Kitchen
6 Beyond Kitchen Walls: Queering Domestic Place through Memory and Storytelling
SECTION THREE Living Spaces
7 Designs for Living Rooms
8 The Bedsit
9 Safe Space, Silo Storage, Outhouse with a View: Lesbian Garden History
SECTION FOUR Bedrooms
10 Law and the Bedroom: 'Living Together as Husband and Wife'?
11 The Nursery
SECTION FIVE Bathrooms
12 The Writing is on the (Lavatory) Wall: Haptic Presence, Modern Design and the Traces of Community
13 Toilet Training: The Gender and Sexual Body Politics of the Bathroom
SECTION SIX Closets and Studies
14 The Closet
15 Entering the Eighteenth-Century Closet and Coming Out Today
16 A Queer Study
Index
