Title & Author:

Suffragette city : women, politics and the built environment / edited by Elizabeth Darling and Nathaniel Robert Walker.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Description:

xi, 223 pages : illustrations (black and white), plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Elizabeth Darling and Nathaniel Robert Walker -- Part I. Reconfiguring communities: An urban experiment in spiritual motherhood: gender, class and reform in Edwardian Edinburgh / Elixabeth Darling -- Amaza's Azurest : Modern Architecture and the 'New Negro' Woman / Jaqueline Taylor, City of Detroit Department of Planning and Development -- Life and breath to the city: women, urbanism, and the birth of the historic preservation movement / Nathaniel Robert Walker -- g Part II. Pathfinding in the professions: The 'minister of municipalities': shared space and social fabric in the work of Caroline Barlett Crane / Ann Marie Boys -- 'This Strange Interloper' : Building Products and the Emergence of the Architect-Shopper in 1930s Britain / by Katie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University -- Adapting and anticipating: the home planning consultancy work of Hilde Reiss and Jane Drew, 1943-45 / Erin McKellar -- Part III. Staking claimes to urban space: -- Almost as good as a Frank Gehry: Doris Duke, Maya Lin, and the gendered politics space in Newport, Rhode Island / Catherine W. Zipf -- Beyond the bind: architecture, gendered agency and South African urban struggle / Sharóne L. Tomer -- Inroads for the Outsourced : Call-Centre Graveyard Shifts and the Impact of Women on the Nocturnal Streets of Mumbai, India / by Aparna Parikh, Pennsylvania State University.

Summary:

"Suffragette City brings together a collection of illustrated essays dedicated to exploring and analysing cases in which women have resourcefully leveraged or defied the politics of gender to form and reform architecture and urbanism. Throughout much of modern history women have been assigned to the margins and expected to play passive social roles. Suffragette City draws on nineteenth- and twentieth-century architectural case studies from the English-speaking world, including the U.S.A., South Africa, Scotland, India and England, to examine places and moments when women stepped into the centre of public life and claimed opportunities to shape the fabrics of their communities. Their engagements with the built environment consistently transcended architecture to achieve the level of urbanism, as whole networks of relationships came into their purview, transforming the architecture of socio-political connection as well as the confronting the physical divisions that have historically lay along racial, economic, and gendered lines. Academics, researchers and students engaged in architectural history, theory, urbanism, gender studies and social and cultural history will be interested in this fascinating, politically-charged text"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781138571631 hardcover
1138571636 hardcover
9781138571648 paperback
1138571644 paperback
electronic book
9780203702628
electronic publication
9781351333917
electronic book
9781351333924
Mobipocket electronic book
9781351333900

Subject:

Architecture and women.
Space (Architecture) Social aspects.
Architecture et femmes.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect social.

Added entries:

Darling, Elizabeth, editor.
Walker, Nathaniel Robert, editor.
Darling, Elizabeth editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306797
Call No.: BIB 252346
Status: Available