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- Title
Fatherhood, furniture and the inter-personal dynamics of working-class homes, c. 1870–1914.
- Authors
STRANGE, JULIE-MARIE
- Abstract
Drawing on life stories, this article considers the relationship between urban working-class men and domesticity. Focusing on the spaces, objects and rites of men's homecoming, it questions perceptions of working-class men as peripheral to the inter-personal dynamics of family life and assesses how men's occupation of domestic space and time could be invested with emotive meaning by adult children. The article suggests that fathers were not simply figures of authority or masculine privilege but, rather, that the domestic interior was a space where men and their children navigated family roles and filial obligations to enjoy nurturing and intimate relationships more commonly associated with mothers. In doing so, the article stakes a claim to reconsider the idea that working-class homes were ‘a woman's place’ and view them more dynamically as inter-personal domains.
- Subjects
BOLTON (England); UNITED Kingdom; FATHERHOOD -- Social aspects; INTERPERSONAL relations &; society; ARMCHAIRS; WORKING class; FATHER-child relationship -- Social aspects; HOUSEHOLDS -- Social aspects; INTIMACY (Psychology); FAMILIES; MANNERS &; customs -- Social aspects; SOCIOLOGY of memory; FAMILY roles; HISTORY
- Publication
Urban History, 2013, Vol 40, Issue 2, p271
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926813000060