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9780415172530

Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415172530

  • ISBN10:

    0415172535

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1999-11-11
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. It guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. It includes essays by Leslie Kanes Weisman, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Audre Lorde, Michele Barrett, Nancy Chodorow, Luce Irigaray, Joan Wallach Scott, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Harry Brod, Judith Butler, Daphne Spain, Doreen Massey, Elizabeth Wilson, Griselda Pollock, Meaghan Morris, bell hooks, Elizabeth Grosz, Sara Boutelle, Lynne Walker, Denise Scott Brown, Dolores Hayden, Zeynep Celik, Alice T. Friedman, Joel Sanders, Elizabeth Diller, Julie Eizenberg, Hank Koning, and others.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Prologue: `Women's Environmental Rights: A Manifesto' 1(5)
Leslie Kanes Weisman
Editors' General Introduction
6(9)
Jane Rendell
Barbara Penner
lain Borden
PART 1: GENDER
Introduction: `Gender'
15(10)
Jane Rendell
A Room of One's Own
25(4)
Virginia Woolf
The Second Sex
29(4)
Simone de Beauvoir
Excerpts from `The Problem that Has No Name'
33(12)
Betty Friedan
Excerpts from `Some Conceptual Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis'
45(8)
Michele Barrett
`The Master's Tools will Never Dismantle the Master's House'
53(3)
Audre Lorde
Excerpts from `Why Women Mother'
56(4)
Nancy Chodorow
`This Sex Which is Not One'
60(7)
Luce Irigaray
Excerpts from `Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses'
67(7)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Excerpts from `Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis'
74(14)
Joan Wallach Scott
Excerpts from `The Case for Men's Studies'
88(8)
Harry Brod
Excerpts from `Subversive Bodily Acts'
96(3)
Judith Butler
PART 2: GENDER, SPACE 99(124)
Introduction: `Gender, Space'
101(11)
Jane Rendell
`The Partition of Space'
112(6)
Shirley Ardener
Excerpts from `The Contemporary Workplace'
118(10)
Daphne Spain
`Space, Place and Gender'
128(6)
Doreen Massey
`Men in Space'
134(6)
Rosalyn Deutsche
`Claiming the Public Space: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo'
140(6)
Susana Torre
`Into the Labyrinth'
146(8)
Elizabeth Wilson
Excerpts from `Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity'
154(14)
Griselda Pollock
`Things to Do with Shopping Centres'
168(14)
Meaghan Morris
`Everyday and ``Other'' Spaces'
182(21)
Mary McLeod
`Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness'
203(7)
bell hooks
`Woman, Chora, Dwelling'
210(13)
Elizabeth Grosz
PART 3: GENDER, SPACE, ARCHITECTURE 223(176)
Introduction: `Gender, Space, Architecture'
225(15)
Jane Rendell
`Julia Morgan'
240(4)
Sara Boutelle
`Women and Architecture'
244(14)
Lynne Walker
`Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture'
258(8)
Denise Scott Brown
`What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design and Human Work'
266(16)
Dolores Hayden
`Working with Women'
282(13)
Frances Bradshaw (Matrix)
`A Feminist Approach to Architecture: Acknowledging Women's Ways of Knowing'
295(11)
Karen A. Franck
Excerpts from `The Creative Process'
306(8)
Labelle Prussin
Excerpts from `The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism'
314(7)
Beatriz Colomina
Excerpts from `Le Corbusier, Orientalism, Colonialism'
321(11)
Zeynep Celik
`Architecture, Authority and the Female Gaze: Planning and Representation in the Early Modern Country House'
332(10)
Alice T. Friedman
`Closets, Clothes, disClosure'
342(11)
Henry Urbach
`Cadet Quarters, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs'
353(5)
Joel Sanders
`Architecture from Without: Body, Logic and Sex'
358(13)
Diane Agrest
`Big Jugs'
371(14)
Jennifer Bloomer
`Bad Press'
385(12)
Elizabeth Diller
Epilogue: Excerpts from `House, 20 June 1994'
397(2)
bell hooks
Julie Eizenberg
Hank Koning
Bibliography 399(25)
Index 424

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