The American Woman's Home Sweet Home: Recentering and Commodifying the Hearth in National Ideology

Carrie Gammell is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, working at the intersection of architectural history, property law, and political economy. Her dissertation examines the claim house and the single-family home as intermediaries of dispossession in the American West, from the Homestead Act of 1862 to the Housing Act of 1934.