Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses

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Pantheon Books, 2000 - Architecture - 243 pages
Witty, informative, and thought-provoking, this study ranges through literature, art, film, journalism, criticism, and the hard evidence of everyday experience to provide an acute analysis of the ways in which we think about the places where we hang our hats. Print features. NPR sponsorship.

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INTRODUCTION Sex and Real Estate
3
SIX The House as History
150
SEVEN The Summer House
181
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Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and the director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University.

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