Soap and the City

By: Rhian E. Jones

Edwina Attlee's book 'Strayed Homes' praises the in-between spaces of everyday life – the intimate public spaces that can be homes from home.

Edwina Attlee, Strayed Homes: Cultural Histories of the Domestic in Public (Bloomsbury, 2021)

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The death in April of June Brown led me to reflect on her Eastenders creation Dot Cotton as a working-class icon. Despite the fearsomely patrician politics of Brown herself, Dot offered an unapologetic portrait of the resilience and resourcefulness of older working-class women, who are still overlooked and underrepresented in contemporary culture. Dot is indivisible […]

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The death in April of June Brown led me to reflect on her Eastenders creation Dot Cotton as a working-class icon. Despite the fearsomely patrician politics of Brown herself, Dot offered an unapologetic portrait of the resilience and resourcefulness of older working-class women, who are still overlooked and underrepresented in contemporary culture. Dot is indivisible […]

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The death in April of June Brown led me to reflect on her Eastenders creation Dot Cotton as a working-class icon. Despite the fearsomely patrician politics of Brown herself, Dot offered an unapologetic portrait of the resilience and resourcefulness of older working-class women, who are still overlooked and underrepresented in contemporary culture. Dot is indivisible […]

The death in April of June Brown led me to reflect on her Eastenders creation Dot Cotton as a working-class icon. Despite the fearsomely patrician politics of Brown herself, Dot offered an unapologetic portrait of the resilience and resourcefulness of older working-class women, who are still overlooked and underrepresented in contemporary culture. Dot is indivisible […]

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