... and pastimes, which documented the everyday practices of the English people from the time of the Roman conquest onwards: it offered in effect a history of the domestic life of the English people. The historicization of domesticity or everyday life was notably elaborated upon in historical novels by antiquarian...

... and womanhood; the conflict between freedom and domesticity; understandings of transcendence versus immanence; and ancient fears about shape-shifting, especially from animal to human and back again. Supernatural women who bridge the division of earth and sky or who simply soar through space present...

... Brothers’ “The Six Swans” and, to a lesser degree, “The Crystal Ball.” These tales exploit associations between sexuality and flying, the attraction to and fear of bestiality represented by animal lovers, and female shape-shifting abilities that transform domesticated, obedient wives into wild...

... sector, and changing leisure patterns. The chapter pays attention to the increased presence of women eating out in order to locate the restaurant in wider discussions about the interconnections between the domestic and public spheres, and the emergence of new forms of hetero-sociability. By inserting...

... and character, as well as manners, habits, and domesticity and private life. Finally, it cites the difference between biography and history in terms of recording and describing modernity. Phillips Mark death commemoration of obituaries biographies identity national identity An Account of the Life of Mr...

... roles, she invested mothers with her hope that they would keep republican virtues alive in the privacy of their homes, in preparation for another, better revolution. Jules, however, fully embraced the ideal of domesticity that separated women from politics and the public. The lives of Rosalie’s daughter...

... governess Claire Neville) but also her darker-skinned caregiver (Juno Hays), a figure largely absent from criticism to date. The chapter’s discussion of Juno focuses on Black faith, domesticity, and fortune telling—and ultimately on the ways reconsidering Black periodicals and African American homes can...

...This chapter explores domesticity and ambiguous relationships in Michael Mann's Manhunter (1986), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and The Insider (1998). In Manhunter, Will Graham's physical and emotional separation from his own...

... building helped sustain the bonds of northern Virginia's Quaker community. Still, Quaker women could not escape entirely the pervasive gender and racial values of the region, which limited their social activism and shaped relations with their black domestic servants. Community establishment of Fairfax...

... authority over other men: governing males, preventing their misconduct, and punishing manifestations of it. By contrast, heads of households—husbands and fathers—would have responsibility for policing female sexuality by confining women to domesticity and ensuring their proper behavior there. This chapter...

... that some recurring themes/aspects of the case record material require further explication in the colonial context, such as the emphasis on reproductive health and the presence of imbecile women. diagnoses families gender mental occupations vagrant welfare women work birthrate bodies domesticity...

... Rhodesia (FWI) turned to political activism with the founding of Homecraft Clubs for black women. The FWI's systematization of knowledge about home economics was concomitant with the white women's heightened sense of Rhodesian nationalism. As white women taught domesticity and community service to black...

...This chapter examines the conflict over food that pitted New York-born Italians against their immigrant parents during the period 1920–1930. It begins with a discussion of how food became a symbol of both domesticity and ethnicity for Italian Americans in East Harlem by focusing on the domestic...

..., such as Ruth Crawford Seeger and Marion Bauer. More typically, comic “musical readings” satirized gender expectations. Courtship, marriage, and domesticity were portayed as less than ideal. Performers sometimes adopted a rebellious boy persona, allowing for women’s further expression of gendered satire. Some...

...This chapter provides an overview of the book’s focus, and devotes particular attention to the key concepts that it grapples with: labor brokerage, contracts and their relationship to defining free labor, the economic and social value of domesticity, and the involvement of the state in determining...

...Peter Collinson's The Penthouse (1967), a key British noir film of the 1960s, followed in the tradition of Joseph Losey's more restrained dramas of claustrophobic domesticity gone horribly wrong in The Servant (1963) and Accident (1967). London...

...This chapter focuses on Henry James's first acknowledged novel, Roderick Hudson (1878), a hitherto unrecognized classic of the romantic friendship genre. James's text provides a means to conceptualize both the “straight closet” and what the author calls “compulsory domesticity...

...-historical tropes – such as hypersexualisation, anti-domesticity, violence – this essay also examines context- and media-specific elements of representation. Additionally, the introduction serves to define ‘werewolf’ and to give a summary of the ways in which this creature has been (mis)read in both...

...This chapter considers the mother's physical presence in relation to spaces; to the geography that signifies and comprises her social function and status. The focus is upon the representation of domesticity in domestic tragedies, which turn upon the dangerous potential of motherhood in an uncertain...

... Venice Braudel Fernand Book of the Courtier Castiglione Castiglione Croxton Play of the Sacrament Dante Alighieri Ghent Kaminsky Howard Paris Florence Hakluyt Richard Heywood Thomas If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody Heywood London femme sole guilds space domestic life Tanchelm Schama...