Home environments: Aesthetics, fashion, status

Deborah Leslie; Mia Hunt

Home environments: Aesthetics, fashion, status

Deborah Leslie, Mia Hunt

Department of Geography

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Abstract

Home decoration is bound up in complex interactions between status, taste and identity. Because home environments are socially constructed, household tastes reflect and reinforce class hierarchies, as well as gender, racial, ethnic, sexual and national differences. Women are primarily responsible for defining the style of the home, and they are often caught between conflicting discourses. A range of institutions – such as the state, reformers and the media – mediate the construction of domestic space, continually forwarding new styles and design philosophies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home
Editors	Susan J. Smith
Publisher	Elsevier
Publication status	Published - 2012

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