Domesticity Under Siege: Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home

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Notes

1. Christopher Reed, “Introduction,” in Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, ed. Christopher Reed (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), 7. Reed draws on Walter Benjamin’s “Louis Philippe of the Interior,” Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism trans. Harry Zohn (London: Verso, 1973). On Benjamin and the interior, see Charles Rice, The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity (London: Routledge, 2007).

2. Gülsüm Baydar and Hilde Heynen Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture (New York: Routledge, 2005); Brent Pilkey et al. Sexuality and Gender at Home: Experience, Politics, Transgression (London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017); Lilian Chee, “Domesticity, Gender, and Architecture,” in The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History, ed. Duanfang Lu (London: Taylor & Francis, 2021), 253–269.

3. See also Annmarie Adams, Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870–1900 (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996).

4. For example, Beatriz Colomina, Domesticity at War (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007); Andrew M. Shanken, 194×: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009); Greg Castillo, Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design ;(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010); and Andrea Vesentini, Indoor America: The Suburban Landscape of Postwar America (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018).