Redesigning the American Dream: Gender,Housing,and Family Life
Americans still build millions of dream houses in neighborhoods that sustain Victorian stereotypes of the home as 'woman's place' and the city as 'man's world.' Urban historian and architect Dolores Hayden tallies the personal and social costs of an American 'architecture of gender' for the two-earner family, the single-parent family, and single people. Many societies have struggled with the architectural and urban consequences of women's paid employment: Hayden traces three models of home in...
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Winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Award for Excellence in Design Research, the Paul Davidoff Award for an Outstanding Book in Urban Planning, the Vesta Award for Feminist Scholarship in the Arts, and an ALA Notable Book Award: a provocative critique of how American housing patterns impact private and public life.
Preface to the 2002 EditionAcknowledgmentsPt. IThe Evolution of American Housing171Housing and American Life192From Ideal City to Dream House333Awakening from the Dream57Pt. IIRethinking Private Life794Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie815Economics: Getting and Spending1216Architecture: Roof, Fire, and Center141Pt. IIIRethinking Public Life1917Reconstructing Domestic Space1938Domesticating Urban Space2259Beyond the Architecture of Gender239Notes247Selected Bibliography269Index279
