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though from different perspectives, focuses on the transition or the relationship
ture, The topics range fi
tudes toward the
psychology,
wving made the anthropological approach and its search for meaning
new and broaching research tradi
trating the exotic in the familiar
Domesticity in Dispute
A Reconsideration of Sources
Heidi de Mare
‘ERATURE that examines the way peoplelived in
jcentury Dutch interior as the cradle of dor
Rybczynsid in his book Home: A Short.
seventeenth-century Dutch bourgeois
everyday lite d
12 remarks on seventeenth-centucy Dutch
‘their sobriety is not without a sense of eae and warm bourgeois in
194,102). Similarly the historian Simon Schasma weit
‘of domesticity pervades “an idylic, peacet
“the stil atmosphere of the room” in works by Jo
by Pieter de Hooch of lghe,
represent “middle-class
ene” by Emanuel de
es Vermeer (Rybex
ing emphasis om privacy idle-clas family, resHeidi de Mare
‘parents and children, with the nuclear family constituting the focus of domesticity
(Rybceynsk 1987, 59-60). The neat, uncluttered interiors by Pieter de Hooch reflect
disciplined organization of Dutch households, while the untidy rooms depicted
are an expression of the very antithesis. Objects of many kinds portrayed
{nn the paintings, from brooms to water purnps, emphasize the interest in household
‘matters. The authors also refer to other manifestations ofthe same intirate, domestic
to be found in books, for example, the much-read work by J
advice on marriage (Scham
od (Rybexynski 1987, 35-56)
‘every author gives a second interpretation: Schama st
‘metaphorical relationship between cleansing the house and the general craving for
purity: Rybezynski emphasizes the role of the housewife and ber maid
practical organization of the household, Like Franits he sees women's devo
the home as a sign of the final feminization of the domestic sphere and asa typical
haeacterstc of Dutch domesticity.
‘Many ofthese elements can indeed be found in writings and pain
atmosphere.
were then projected into the past and applied to seventeenth-cent
bbooks, and houses (Schotel 1867; Grijzenhout and Van Veen 1992).
concept of domesticity.
ry the myth of seventeenth-