This book views domesticity through multiple frames and surveys the rhetoric and practices of domestication in contemporary cultures. It also examines the consequences and costs of homemaking in various geographic and textual locations.

Recycling: Long Routes to and from Domestic Fixes -- On the Road: Nations, Empires, Texts, Homes -- Why Daughters Die: The Racial Logic of American Sentimentalism -- Homes in the Empire, Empires in the Home -- Modernism and Domesticity: From Conrad's Eastern Road to Stein's Empty Spaces in the Home -- Homo-Economics: Queer Sexualities in a Transnational Frame -- DomestiCity: Redrawing Urban Space -- Reconstructed Identity: Spatial Change and Adaptation in a Greek-Macedonian Refugee Neighborhood -- Counterparts: Dubliners, Masculinity, and Temperance Nationalism -- Repetition and Unhousing in Nawal El-Saadawi -- Fast Capital, Race, Modernity, and the Monster House -- Nostalgia, Modernity, and Other Domestic Fictions -- Dishing Up Dixie: Recycling the Old South in the Early-Twentieth-Century Domestic Ideal -- Domestic Renovations: The Marriage Plot, the Lodging House, and Lesbian Desire in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces -- "Homesick for Those Memories": The Gendering of Historical Memory in Women's Narratives of the Vietnam War -- Domesticity and the Demon Mother: A Review Essay of Sorts -- Bringing Down the House: Dreaming, Revising, Burning -- Feminists Are Modern; Families Are Indian: Women's Magazines and the Politics of Modernity -- In a Neighborhood of Another Color: Latina/Latino Struggles for Home -- Home, Houses, Nonidentity: Paris Is Burning -- The Squat, the Tearoom, the Urn, and the Designer Bathroom: Citing Home in Ken Loach's Riff Raff