Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe

by Hills,Helen; Hills,Helen

• ISBN13: 9780754603092
• ISBN10: 0754603091
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays in this book address the relationships between gender and the built environment, specifically architecture, in early modern Europe.Much excellent scholarship has enhanced our understanding of gender division in early modern Europe, but often this scholarship is blunted because it considers gender in isolation from other vital factors, especially social class. Central to the concerns of this book, therefore, is a consideration of the intersections of gender with social rank.Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe makes a major contribution to the developing analysis of how architecture contributes to the shaping of social relations, especially in relation to gender, in early modern Europe.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
List of Illustrations	ix
Notes on the Editor and Contributors	xv
PART I INTRODUCTION	1	(22)
Theorizing the Relationships between Architecture and Gender in Early Modern Europe	3	(20)
Helen Hills
PART II PRODUCTION: ARCHITECTS AND PATRONS	23	(74)
1 A Noble Residence for a Female Regent: Margaret of Austria and the 'Court of Savoy' in Mechelen	25	(22)
Dagmar Eichberger
2 The Val-de-Grâce as a Portrait of Anne of Austria: Queen, Queen Regent, Queen Mother	47	(16)
Jennifer G. Germane
3 The Architecture of Institutionalism: Women's Space in Renaissance Hospitals	63	(20)
Eunice D. Howe
4 Women and the Practice of Architecture in Eighteenth-century France	83	(14)
Tanis Hinchcliffe
PART III PRACTICE AND RESISTANCE	97	(96)
5 'Repaired by me to my exceeding great Cost and Charges': Anne Clifford and the Uses of Architecture	99	(16)
Elizabeth V. Chew
6 'Women in wolves' mouths': Nun's Reputations, Enclosure and Architecture at the Convent of the Le Murate in Florence	115	(16)
Saundra Weddle
7 Spatial Discipline and its Limits: Nuns and the Built Environment in Early Modern Spain	131	(20)
Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
8 Spaces Shaped for Spiritual Perfection: Convent Architecture and Nuns in Early Modern Rome	151	(26)
Marilyn Dunn
9 Women in the Charterhouse: the Liminality of Cloistered Spaces at the Chartreuse de Champmol in Dijon	177	(16)
Sherry C.M. Lindquist
Select Bibliography	193	(16)
Index	209