Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture

by Heynen; Hilde

• ISBN13: 9780415341394
• ISBN10: 0415341396
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-06-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The home is the very place where the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible. This book investigates the multi-layered themes evoked by the interconnections between these terms.

Table of Contents

Illustration credits	vii
Notes on contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
1 Modernity and domesticity: tensions and contradictions	1	(29)
Hilde Heynen
2 Figures of wo/man in contemporary architectural discourse	30	(17)
Gülsüm Baydar
Gendered subjects	47	(74)
3 "A citizen as well as a housewife": new spaces of domesticity in 1930's London	49	(16)
Elizabeth Darling
4 The housewife, the builder, and the desire for a polykatoikia apartment in postwar Athens	65	(18)
Ioanna Theocharopoulou
5 Promoting Catholic family values and modern domesticity in postwar Belgium	83	(20)
Fredie Floré
6 Rehearsing domesticity: postwar Pocono honeymoon resorts	103	(20)
Barbara Penner
Sexual articulations	121	(92)
7 "Only where comfort ends, does humanity begin": on the "coldness" of avant-garde architecture in the Weimar period	123	(22)
Karina Van Herck
8 The uncanny architect: fears of lesbian builders and deviant homes in modern Germany	145	(17)
Despina Stratigakos
9 A queer analysis of Eileen Gray's E.1027	162	(19)
Katarina Bonnevier
10 An architecture of twenty words: intimate details of a London blue plaque house	181	(15)
Lilian Chee
11 Denatured domesticity: an account of femininity and physiognomy in the interiors of Frances Glessner Lee	196	(17)
Laura J. Miller
Spatial practices	213	(102)
12 Unequal union: La Casa Estudio de San Angel Inn, c. 1929-1932	215	(19)
Ernestina Osorio
13 Looking at/in/from the Maison de Verre	234	(18)
Christopher Wilson
14 Mediating houses: Marie-José Van Hee's domestic architecture	252	(29)
André Loeckx
15 Photography's veil: reading gender and Loos' interiors	281	(15)
Charles Rice
16 The modernist boudoir and the erotics of space	296	(19)
Anne Troutman
Index	315