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Interviews and observations within the informant’s home confirmed many of Sarah Pink’s findings in regards to gender and the home space.  My informant, like Pink’s non-housewife informants, had only a cursory knowledge of housework, often having to do an Internet search for basic inquiries.  My informant also repurposed spaces that resisted conventional domestic and gendered uses, such as using the kitchen table as a primary work space, more often than not eating dinner on her bed while watching TV.  Pink states, “Many contemporary women’s practices are both critical of and resist traditional gender and conventional domestic layouts and uses of space.  As such their interactions with their material and sensory homes constitute forms of changing gender and changing homes by giving new meanings or layouts to areas of the home and areas carried out in it”.