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'My two homes': children’s picture books and non/normative imaginaries of home in post-divorce/separation families

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posted on 2023-06-09, 14:15 authored by Katie WalshKatie Walsh
In spite of a burgeoning interest in children’s home lives, we know little about the meaning and experience of home for children living in postdivorce/separation families who often spend time in more than one parental home. As a starting point, in this article I analyse the way in which thirteen ‘therapeutic’ pictures books for younger children aged 3-8 represent home for such children (and their parents) through their text and images. I argue that the books contain four dominant tropes of domestic transition through their representation of the disruption, journeys, thresholds and materialities of home. However, at the same time, the books also present the ordinariness of domestic home life in post-divorce/separation family life with a counter-narrative of the mundane time spent being together and gender-neutral parental care practices at home.

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Home Cultures

ISSN

1740-6315

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

3

Volume

14

Page range

237-256

Department affiliated with

  • Geography Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Centre for Migration Research Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-07-24

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-09-07

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-07-23

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