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The Apotheosis of Home and the Maintenance of Spaces of Violence
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 17, Number 4, Fall 2002
- pp. 39-70
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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.