Browsing the Modern Kitchen—a feast of gender, place and culture (Part 1)

Johnson, Louise

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“…Also taking a historical perspective, Llewellyn (2004), Saarikangas (2006) and Lloyd and Johnson (2004) highlight the emphasis placed on functionality and how this was translated in practical terms. Although the domestic would remain, unchallenged, as women's domain, the application of time-and-motion principles, the prioritisation of the working triangle (see Johnson 2006 for variations on this) and masculine 5 values associated with industrialisation infiltrated the way in which kitchens were designed.…”

Section: Kitchen Design and The Negotiation Of Domestic Spacementioning

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Crowded kitchens: the ‘democratisation’ of domesticity?

Meah

Jackson

2013

Gender, Place & Culture

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Building on previous work concerning the gendered nature of domestic space, this paper focuses on the kitchen as a key site in which gendered roles and responsibilities are experienced and contested. As men have begun to engage more frequently in cooking and other domestic practices (albeit selectively and often on their own terms), the paper argues that kitchens have become 'crowded' spaces for women. Drawing on evidence from focus groups, interviews and ethnographic observation of kitchen practices in South Yorkshire (UK), we suggest that men's entry into the kitchen has facilitated the expression of a more diverse range of masculine subjectivities, while also creating new anxieties for women.Specifically, our evidence suggests that family meals may be experienced as a site of domestic conflict as well as a celebration of family life; that convenience and shortcuts can be embraced by women without incurring feelings of guilt and imperfection; that cooking is being embraced as a lifestyle choice by increasing numbers of men who use it as an opportunity to demonstrate competence and skill, while women are more pragmatic; ; and that kitchens may be experienced as 'uncanny' spaces by women as men increasingly assert their presence in this domain. Our analysis confirms that while the relationship between domestic practices and gendered subjectivities is changing, this does not amount to a fundamental 'democratisation' of domesticity with significantly greater equality between men and women.

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Section: Kitchen Design and The Negotiation Of Domestic Spacementioning

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Crowded kitchens: the ‘democratisation’ of domesticity?

Meah

Jackson

2013

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…They featured space for a table near the door, and a hatch serving the living-dining room. In doing this, Spence placed the kitchen at the centre of the discourse of modernity, challenging well-established associations between 'back' and 'front' (Johnson, 2006). Narratives of 'operational efficiency' (Meah, 2016, p.43), and a process of 'aestheticization' (Hand & Shove, 2004, p.243) freed the kitchen from the 'back' (Forty, 1986;Sparke, 1995) and made it a streamlined space that could be linked to the living area (Cieraad, 2002;Matrix, 1984).…”

Section: Exploring the Spatial Articulation Of Architecture With Homementioning

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“…Women's mass access to paid work, and the disappearance of servants in the middle-class home, were the main factors that contributed to the popularity of the modern kitchen for both middle-class and working-class households (Freeman, 2004;Johnson, 2006). Housing manuals indicated its social acceptance with the introduction of the term 'working kitchen' (Ministry of Health, 1944;Ministry of Health and Ministry of Works, 1949), a dual space 'for light meals as well as cooking' (Llewellyn, 2004a, p.51).…”

Section: Exploring the Spatial Articulation Of Architecture With Homementioning

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Negotiating the Modern Cross-Class “Model Home”: Domestic Experiences in Basil Spence’s Claremont Court

Santos

Bertolino

2018

Space and Culture

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This article investigates the spatial articulation of architecture and home through the exploration of current domestic experiences in Basil Spence’s Claremont Court housing scheme (1959-1962), Edinburgh. How architecture and home are both idealized and lived is the backdrop for a discussion that draws on the concept of “model home,” or physical representation of a domestic ideal. The article reads Claremont Court as an architectural prototype of the modern domestic ideal, before exploring its reception by five of its households through the use of visual methods and semistructured interviews. Receiving the model home involves negotiating between ideal and lived homes. Building on this idea, the article contributes with a focus on the spatiality of such reception, showing how it is modulated according to the architectural affordances that the “model home” represents. The article expands on scholarship on architecture and home with empirical evidence that argues the reciprocal spatiality of home.

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“…5 Louise Johnson (2006), for example, reports the application of time-and-motion principles in Australia, Europe, and North America by the 1920s, leading to the identification of a "working triangle"…”

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“…It is a topic that has attracted scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds: from feminists who have marked the kitchen out as "a zone of feminine subjection, where women must manage a ceaseless routine of work" (Floyd 2004: 62) to those who have taken a global perspective in providing revisionist histories of women's relationship with the spaces in which domestic foodwork takes place, among whom the kitchen has been reconceptualized as a site of resistance rather than one of oppression. Meanwhile, design, cultural, and social historians have explored how-in addition to the ways in which female subjectivity has been designed into kitchen spaces (Hayden 1978;Cieraad 2002;Llewellyn 2004a)-ideologies concerning nationhood (Buckley 1996;Lloyd and Johnson 2004), social class (Attfield 1995;Cieraad 2002;Hollows 2000;Llewellyn 2004b), and both production and consumption influenced the visions of architects, designers, and urban planners during the twentieth century Jerram 2006;Johnson 2006;Saarikangas 2006;Hollows 2008). Others have explored the ways in which the kitchen has been reconstituted from a "backstage" site of production to one of socialityin the form of the kitchen-diner or living-kitchen-accessible to and converged upon by all household members and visitors alike Munro 2013).…”

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Materializing Memory, Mood, and Agency: The Emotional Geographies of the Modern Kitchen

Meah

2016

Gastronomica

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Drawing upon narrative and visual ethnographic data collected from households in the UK, this article explores the material and emotional geographies of the domestic kitchen. Acknowledging that emotions are dynamically related and co-constitutive of place, rather than presenting the kitchen as a simple backdrop against which domestic life is played out, the article illustrates how decisions regarding the design and layout of the kitchen and the consumption of material artefacts are central to the negotiation and doing of relationships and accomplishment of domestic life. Based on fieldwork in northern England, the article examines the affective potential of domestic space and its material culture, exploring how individuals are embodied in the fabric and layout of domestic space, and how memories may be materialized in their absence.

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Browsing the Modern Kitchen—a feast of gender, place and culture (Part 1)

Cited by 31 publications

References 15 publications

Crowded kitchens: the ‘democratisation’ of domesticity?

Crowded kitchens: the ‘democratisation’ of domesticity?

Negotiating the Modern Cross-Class “Model Home”: Domestic Experiences in Basil Spence’s Claremont Court

Materializing Memory, Mood, and Agency: The Emotional Geographies of the Modern Kitchen

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