'You feel like you're throwing your life away just to make it look clean': Insights into women's everyday management of Hearth and Home in Wales

Folkes, Louise ORCID: 0000-0002-7857-6953 and Mannay, Dawn (2023) 'You feel like you're throwing your life away just to make it look clean': Insights into women's everyday management of Hearth and Home in Wales. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Psychology, Power and Gender. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 77-93. ISBN 9783031415302

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Abstract

This chapter draws from four qualitative research studies conducted in Wales, UK. The chapter explores the ways in which white working-class women construct gendered identities in relation to the everyday management of hearth and home. The home is presented as an intersectional space where gender, class, age, and locality produce complex and nuanced power relationships. The chapter sets out how these relationships play out and are made visible by examining the tensions between domesticity and paid employment; how gender, age, and class intersect; and the role of place and stigma in forming gendered subjectivities. The chapter positions the home as space within wider spaces and ideologies of acceptable femininity, considers discourses of class, locality, stigma, and ‘otherhood’—and illustrates pervasive inequalities in the domestic sphere and their broader impacts.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences
Research Priority Areas:	Society and Learning
Depositing User:	Louise Folkes
Date Deposited:	28 Apr 2022 13:03
Last Modified:	04 Jan 2024 16:30
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/10765

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