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The Apotheosis of Home and the Maintenance of Spaces of Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Joshua M. Price
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Abstract

The “Home” is ideologically understood as a place of safety and refuge. Such an account cloaks violence against women. The voices of battered women can disrupt that dominant construction of the space of the home, a construction typified by the work of Gaston Bachelard. The space that Bachelard presupposes and theorizes as given is in fact being-produced, cleaned, and organized by people who themselves may not find in it any solace or respite.

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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Fall 2002 , pp. 39 - 70
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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