No Place Like Home
Women Philosophers' Struggles with Domesticity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 May 2026
- ISBN 9780197687383
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 242x165x23 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English 685
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Short description:
No Place Like Home examines the home through the lens of female writers and thinkers across history, in order to reinstate the home as a philosophical problem.
MoreLong description:
Why should we think about the home? Most would agree that it is central to children's development-a healthy, stable, and hopefully loving environment where they can prepare for adulthood. But for women, the duties and expectations bound up with life at home have historically often meant stunted development, confinement to the home and domestic work, subordination to a man who goes in and out of the home freely. While societal advancements have helped to close this gap for some, these problems endure for many. The writings of women philosophers, some going back many centuries, reveal insights on these challenges that deserve close study.
In No Place Like Home, Sandrine Bergès calls attention to women philosophers' ideas and arguments, starting in antiquity and continuing into the twenty-first century. Through their writings, she examines the concept of the home in all its historical richness and variety, thus reinstating the home as a philosophical problem, worthy of deep inquiry.
Bergès examines writings about domesticity from numerous female thinkers and writers across history, including but not limited to, Perictione, Angelina Grimké, Mary Wollstonecraft, Catharine Beecher, Sojourner Truth, Margaret Cavendish, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marie Kondo.
Through their perspectives, she reveals the rich and varied history of philosophical reflections on the home, from which we are given the tools to draw our own conclusions about its place in our modern lives.
Table of Contents:
A Room Somewhere
The Creation of the Spheres
The Spheres Begin to Melt
A Loom of One's Own
Of Home and Bondage
Revolutionary Matrons
New Architectures and Domestic Power
The Masters' Home
The Feminist at Home
Postface: Under the Rubble
A Room Somewhere
The Creation of the Spheres
The Spheres Begin to Melt
A Loom of One's Own
Of Home and Bondage
Revolutionary Matrons
New Architectures and Domestic Power
The Masters' Home
The Feminist at Home
Postface: Under the Rubble
