Diasporic Spaces of Conviviality and Domesticity: On the Political Significance of Kitchens in Post-War Britain
Published online on January 07, 2026
Abstract
Space and Culture, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 260-277, May 2026.
My intervention starts at the site of the kitchen, a space that remains often understood as a private site of gendered domestic labour. In this article, I examine how the British modernized post-war kitchen became valorized as a sphere of women’s labour. ...
My intervention starts at the site of the kitchen, a space that remains often understood as a private site of gendered domestic labour. In this article, I examine how the British modernized post-war kitchen became valorized as a sphere of women’s labour. ...