Books in the Home series

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 wide-ranging, comparative and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society.

Samantha Voss loses herself after the death of her adoptive parents. She leaves college and moves home, craving something familiar, but soon finds change is what she really wants. She searches for her birth parents in hopes of finding out more about where she came from. She finds unexpected answers with unending questions. She makes a spontaneous decision to move to a small town in Wisconsin in search of more answers. When she pulls up to her new apartment, she finds support from a sexy stranger, Brady Williams, who takes her breath away. When Samantha is unable to keep him in the friend zone, she decides he might be a good distraction from what she's really there to do. But when everything finally seems to be falling in to place for her, will reality be too much for Samantha and Brady to handle together? Or will their new reality tear them apart?This is book 1 of 2 in the Home Duet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.