Home is Where the Heart (of National Ideology) Is: Gender and Family Values in Home Design and Marketing

• In Event: Scholar to Scholar I

Abstract

At the intersection of gender and architecture lies deep-seated conceptions of gender, family, and home which continue to be perpetuated in contemporary home and town design. This essay and its rhetorical critique borrow from socialist and materialist feminist perspectives to interrogate how homes are designed and the social and personal implications that result.

Author

• Kristin Stimpson, University of Texas, Austin