<EM>Ideal Homes?</EM> shows how both popular images and experiences of home life relate to the ability of society's members to produce and respond to social change.<BR> The book provides for the first time an analysis of the space of the home and the experiences of home life by writers from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, architecture, geography and anthropology. It covers a range of subjects, including gender roles, different generations relationships to home, the changing nature of the family, transition and risk and alternative visions of home.