Books in the Home series

Long-held assumptions about women, home, food, and cooking have broken down. In an increasing number of households, women are either absent from or share domestic work more equally with men. At the same time, the visibility of men''s cooking has increased through TV shows, books, blogs, and websites devoted to food and cooking. Terms like ''gastrosexual'' have emerged to describe the growing male market for kitchenware and the growing prestige of public masculine foodwork.Whilst scholars have begun to examine how men''s increasing engagement with homemaking practices shapes masculine identities and transforms meanings of ''home'', Food, Masculinities and Home is the first book to focus specifically on food. An international, multidisciplinary range of contributors explores questions such as:- How do food practices shape and are shaped by masculinities and the home? - To what extent are existing gender hierarchies being challenges? To what extent is masculine privilege being reiterated? - To what extent are masculinities being reshaped by the increasing presence of men in kitchens and food-focused spaces? With ever-growing interest in both food and gender studies, this is a must-read for students and researchers in food studies, gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, geography, anthropology, and related fields.

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.

Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present.

Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of 'home' in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe.

Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present.

How does food restore the fragmented world of migrants and the displaced? What similar processes are involved in challenging, maintaining or reinforcing divisions between groups coexisting in the same living place? This book examines how 'home' is negotiated around food in the current worldwide context of uncertainty, mobility and displacement.

This book examines experiences of home improvement in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand, providing valuable insight into the ways in which people make and maintain home in social, material and economic context.