Gender, House and ‘Home’: Social Meanings and Domestic Architecture in Britain

Madigan, Ruth; Munro, Moira

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-25908-3_14

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“…This research suggested that the home is a gendered space characterized by gendered roles and obligations (Bowlby, Gregory, & McKie, 1997;Madigan & Munro, 1991). Indeed, women and men experience and account for home in very different ways (Gurney, 1997) which was supported through the research.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 58%

Healthy ageing and home: The perspectives of very old people in five European countries

Sixsmith

Fänge

et al. 2014

Social Science & Medicine

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This paper reports on in-depth research, using a grounded theory approach, to examine the ways in which very old people perceive healthy ageing in the context of living alone at home within urban settings in five European countries. This qualitative study was part of a cross-national project entitled ENABLE-AGE which examined the relationship between home and healthy ageing. Interviews explored the notion of healthy ageing, the meaning and importance of home, conceptualisations of independence and autonomy and links between healthy ageing and home. Data analysis identified five ways in which older people constructed healthy ageing: home and keeping active; elsevier_SSM_9267 managing lifestyles, health and illness; balancing social life; and balancing material and financial circumstances. Older people reflected on their everyday lives at home in terms of being engaged in purposeful, meaningful action and evaluated healthy ageing in relation to the symbolic and practical affordances of the home, contextualised within constructions of their national context. The research suggests that older people perceive healthy ageing as an active achievement, created through individual, personal effort and supported through social ties despite the health, financial and social decline associated with growing older. The physicality and spatiality of home provided the context for establishing and evaluating the notion of healthy ageing, whilst the experienced relationship between home, life history and identity created a meaningful space within which healthy ageing was negotiated.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 58%

Healthy ageing and home: The perspectives of very old people in five European countries

Sixsmith

Fänge

et al. 2014

Social Science & Medicine

184

160

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“…If the relationship between tenure and health is not entirely determined by personal characteristics or physical housing characteristics, then the meaning of home (its psychosocial aspects) may be important. Much of the literature on the meaning of home has not been linked to health (Despres, 1991; Gurney, 1999; Madigan & Munro, 1991; Rainwater, 1966; Saunders, 1989). One study that does attempt to link the meaning of home and health is that of Dunn and Hayes (2000).…”

Section: Are Health Inequalities Between Owners and Renters Due To DImentioning

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Residents and Residence: Factors Predicting the Health Disadvantage of Social Renters Compared to Owner‐Occupiers

Hiscock

MacIntyre

Kearns

et al. 2003

Journal of Social Issues

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Numerous studies have found that owner-occupiers live longer and stay healthier than renters. Epidemiologists often view housing tenure as a proxy for economic circumstances rather than as having directly health-promoting or damaging effects. Housing researchers, on the other hand, have tended to study physical and psychosocial aspects of housing that might directly impact upon health. Linking these two literatures, we analyzed nearly 3,000 postal questionnaires from a stratified random sample of Scottish adults. In particular, we examined differences between owners and social renters that might explain observed tenure differences

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“…Hannah 1982, 211-12. For further discussion on the links between rising living standards and rising consumerism, see e.g. Madigan andMunro 1991, Forty 1986 for example, gas or electric appliances. 42 A grant was available for this, but not until 1964 did electric or gas heating systems qualify for the grant.…”

Section: Continued Rise In Demand and Concerns About Heating And Loadmentioning

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Past Management of Energy Demand: Promotion and Adoption of Electric Heating in Britain 1945-1964

Carlsson-Hyslop¹

2016

Environment and History

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Changes in energy use have been a key part of many dramatic social, economic and environmental changes during the twentieth century and before, making energy interesting to environmental historians. Today, policy makers seek reductions in energy use and carbon emissions to mitigate climate change through demand management policies that attempt to reduce usage or shift it in time away from peak demand. To understand the impact of such policies it is necessary to understand both how they were promoted and received. This article discusses electric heating in early post-war Britain, which was seen as a particularly problematic energy use, as electric fires were used at peak times. The Electricity Development Association (EDA) tried simultaneously to reduce undesirable peak demand while encouraging increased demand more generally. In the late 1940s it advertised against peak use of electric fires, whereas in the 1950s and 1960s it instead concentrated on promoting off-peak heating appliances, first under-floor heating and then block storage heaters. I will analyse how the London County Council and its tenants adopted and adapted electric underfloor heating, illustrating the complicated way demand is made and unmade. The paper concludes that, while demand management has been attempted by the electricity industry since well before the 1970s, these attempts only had a limited effect on the overall trend towards increasing demand, in part to do with how these promotions were adopted. 1982. While sociologists and anthropologists concerned with energy demand have used historical examples, these have tended to focus on the making of demand instead of attempts at unmaking demand (Shove 2003. Similarly, energy history has tended to focus on the dominant trends towards increased overall demand (e.g.

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Gender, House and ‘Home’: Social Meanings and Domestic Architecture in Britain

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

Healthy ageing and home: The perspectives of very old people in five European countries

Healthy ageing and home: The perspectives of very old people in five European countries

Residents and Residence: Factors Predicting the Health Disadvantage of Social Renters Compared to Owner‐Occupiers

Past Management of Energy Demand: Promotion and Adoption of Electric Heating in Britain 1945-1964

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