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Alternative technologies of domestic enclosure in the early twentieth century United States

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Alternative technologies of domestic enclosure in the early twentieth century United States
Author:	Blaustein, Jessica.
Description:	348 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-01, Section: A, page: 0143.
Notes:	Supervisor: Janice Radway.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-01A.
Subject:	Literature, American.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3120175
ISBN:	0496675478

Alternative technologies of domestic enclosure in the early twentieth century United States
Blaustein, Jessica.

Alternative technologies of domestic enclosure in the early twentieth century United States [electronic resource] - 348 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-01, Section: A, page: 0143.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2003.

Combining research into archives and histories of architecture, urban studies, and popular culture with literary fictions of home-life, Counterprivates repositions the forces of privatization as one set of multiple factors contributing to the intersecting layers of social relations and landscapes in the early twentieth century. Examining the boundaries around homes and bodies as zones of struggle over definitions of the personal and the private, as sites for competing technologies of domestic enclosure, I develop a language through which to understand a range of dwelling practices that did not fit such privatizing patterns of domesticity and individualism. To complement recent critical efforts to move outside the bounds of normative privacies---architectural studies of the unprivate house and social theories of counterpublic space---I propose an alternative working theory of a private that exists adjacent to, not opposite from, the public and operates as a function of social being, not a protective and stabilizing apparatus of identity. Drawing upon a range of material and discursive forms---Rudolph Schindler's Kings Road House, Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, Susan Glaspell's The Verge, Carrie Stettheimer's dollhouse, and Willa Cather's One of Ours---this dissertation renders a cross-section of counterprivatizing forces that unsteady the domestic model of interiority upon which the household of the self is based, rearrange the domestic itself so that the house might not figure as a stabilizing ground for subjectivity, and question the very commensurabilities between the geographies of self and home.

ISBN: 0496675478Subjects--Topical Terms:

212571
Literature, American.

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