Household Sanitation and the Flow of Domestic Space SAGE Publications, Inc.1997DOI: 10.1177/12063312970010010101 IanRoderick Monash University Clayton, Australia Ian Roderick Space and, in particular, architecture is often construed as a shell or container for housing discrete bodies and goods. Similarly, the household itself is often conceived of as a discrete socio-economic unit which can be neatly disaggregated from the greater social whole. This paper uses the example of the sanitary reform of nineteenth century domestic architecture to argue for an otherwise tacit understanding of the built environment as a plexus of flows. The Victorian home presents new problems in terms of accommodating sexed and classed bodies which in turn necessitate new forms of presence and new strategies for coding and control domestic space. Through the efficient application of the rules of sanitation, the householder is expected to be able to create an efficient and regulated passage of inmates, goods, services, and wastes. As a vinculum of flows, the organs and orifices of the inmates' bodies are thereby rendered indissociable from the greater social body beyond. Thus, it will be argued, the sanitary reform of housing sought to introduce a competing conception of the home which, rather than being a
Household Sanitation and the Flow of Domestic Space
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Household Sanitation and the Flow of Domestic Space SAGE Publications, Inc.1997DOI: 10.1177/12063312970010010101 IanRoderick Monash University Clayton, Australia Ian Roderick Space and, in particular, architecture is often construed as a shell or container for housing discrete bodies and goods. Similarly, the household itself is often conceived of as a discrete socio-economic unit which can be neatly disaggregated from the greater social whole. This paper uses the example of the sanitary reform of nineteenth century domestic architecture to argue for an otherwise tacit understanding of the built environment as a plexus of flows. The Victorian home presents new problems in terms of accommodating sexed and classed bodies which in turn necessitate new forms of presence and new strategies for coding and control domestic space. Through the efficient application of the rules of sanitation, the householder is expected to be able to create an efficient and regulated passage of inmates, goods, services, and wastes. As a vinculum of flows, the organs and orifices of the inmates' bodies are thereby rendered indissociable from the greater social body beyond. Thus, it will be argued, the sanitary reform of housing sought to introduce a competing conception of the home which, rather than being aPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Household Sanitation and the Flow of Domestic Space
Roderick,Ian
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, Volume 1 (1): 105
SAGE – Jan 1, 1997
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