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Family photographs and domestic spacings: a case study
Author(s) -
Rose Gillian
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/1475-5661.00074
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , space (punctuation) , object (grammar) , photography , white (mutation) , cohesion (chemistry) , product (mathematics) , gender studies , sociology , visual arts , art , computer science , artificial intelligence , geometry , mathematics , biochemistry , chemistry , organic chemistry , gene , operating system
This paper elaborates the argument that domestic space should be considered as the product of relations that extend beyond the home. It examines one common domestic object – family photographs – and explores how the particularity of this photography and the specificity of its display by white middle‐class mothers with young children in South‐east England produce just such an extended domestic space. The stretched space co‐produced by these mothers and photographs is also a form of stretched time, and it is integrative in complex ways; it contains different kinds of absences which disturb but do not break its cohesion. The paper also discusses why the display of family photographs is done almost exclusively by women.