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The housewife who continually rearranges her furniture has become a well- worn stereotype. Even among liberated, young, working couples decorating remains primarily a female activity. In our culture a nice home reflects a good home-maker, a good wife, a good mother and so, a good woman (Loyd, 1975, p. 12). Another study that reveals the male and female differences in housing experiences shows that the personalization of the house and the symbolization of self in the house are female actions and men avoid them (Cooper, 1974). Men especially avoid personalization of spaces used commonly in the house like the living room. Hall (1987) also states the division of space in the house as “ladies and gentlemen” (p. 91) and defines public life as men, and private life, the home as women. Hunt (1989) claims that the home worker (house wife) creates an artistic expression through the arrangement of domestic furnishing and style of the home. Cross (1997) states that in the suburbs, men oscillate between the office, the city and the feminine, domestic world of the house. According to Cross (1997), the dominance of women in the personalization of the house becomes stronger in the suburbs where; “… it was primarily the woman who orchestrated domestic consumption. She worked with purchased goods and transformed them into displays of status and into individual expressions of familial privacy and comfort throughout the house” (p. 118). Increased hours of shopping even compete with recreation activities (Cross, 1997). This situation is quite the same in Turkey as Ayata (2002) reveales that the suburban life is gendered; women display the status of family through consumption and homemaking. Men are pleased to display their 28
house both from the exterior and the interior to show their success to the outsiders. Even working women see the world of business as male and the activities that are related to the house as female. The only attractions for men are maintenance or do- it- yourself tools. “In addition to being wives or mothers, women are seen as homemakers and managers of the house, in charge of provisioning, decoration and management of family appearances. This gives women a central role in management of family consumption” (Ayata, 2002, p. 34). Women easily reach the shopping malls, decoration magazines and develop a “female gaze” (p. 35). In the suburbs, the furniture reflects the life style, personal background and identity of women. Living room activities differentiate for men and women. In the living room, there is a special male corner in which the man sits, watches television, and reads newspapers. Watching sports games, especially football is an activity that men mostly perform in the suburbs (Ayata, 2002). 2.5.2. Physical Factors The location of the house is the first physical factor that affects the use and the interior design of the living room. The frequency of the activities that take place in the living room change according to the districts that houses are located on (Dülgeroğlu- Yüksel et al., 1996). Hence, it might be assumed that these activities vary according to the income and social status of the family. Besides, it might be assumed that the location of the house affects the type of the house and the number of rooms in the house. Other physical factors that might affect the use and the interior design of the living room are size and layout of the house. The size of 29
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Page 26 and 27: house (Bachelard, 1969). On the oth
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