The idea of COUNTRY AS HOME has been deeply controversial for feminists, as it can be also associated with destruction, violence, and can be a place where the promise of security is betrayed by family. Daves (2014:5) writes that feminism from the 1970s to the early 1990s was particularly critical of using the home as a simple positive referent. Thornton (1995:9-11, in Daves, 2014:5) explains that for women, the private world of the home has often been difficult, dangerous, or problematic, a primary site of oppression – the place where inequality exists, where women are subjected to the many forms of private power of husbands and father, and where women are expected to perform undervalued and repetitive tasks. Thinking about the home requires us to cross several dualisms such as those between the individual and the collective, public and private. According to Arendt (1958:29) conceptualisation of the nation as a household is a symptom of taking over public domain, once understood as the site of individual freedom, by mass society: “We see the body of people and political communities in the image of a family whose everyday affairs have to be taken.
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