Main entry:

Weisman, Leslie.

Title & Author:

Discrimination by Design : A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment / Leslie Kanes Weisman.

Publication:

Description:

x, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Table of Contents] -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Spatial Dimensions of Feminism -- 1. THE SPATIAL CASTE SYSTEM: DESIGN FOR SOCIAL INEQUALITY -- Building the Symbolic Universe: The Dichotomization of Space -- Bodyscape as Landscape -- The Sexual Symbolism of Architectural Form -- The City of Man versus Mother Nature -- The Territorial Imperative -- Gender and Spatial Ability -- Gender, Architecture, and Social Values -- 2. PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIAL STATUS -- The Office Tower: Cathedral of Commerce -- The Department Store: Palace of Consumption -- The Shopping Mall: The Signature Building of Our Age -- The Maternity Hospital: Blueprint for Redesigning Childbirth -- Birth Centers: Restoring Women's Birth Rights -- The Spatial Pattern of Social Integration -- 3. THE PRIVATE USE OF PUBLIC SPACE -- City Streets and Sexual Geography -- The Street as Extension of the Domestic Environment -- Feminist Politics and Claiming Public Space -- 4. THE HOME AS METAPHOR FOR SOCIETY -- Domestic Space and Social Roles -- Domestic Violence: A Private Family Affair -- Public Housing: The Female Ghetto -- A House Is Not a Home -- A Feminist Agenda for Housing and Community Design -- 5. REDESIGNING THE DOMESTIC LANDSCAPE -- The Family Mystique -- Housing Preferences and Needs -- Residential Zoning and Social Conformity -- Transforming the Single-Family House -- Housing that Works for Singl Parents -- Designing for Diversity: The Need for Flexible Architecture -- 6. AT HOME IN THE FUTURE -- Housing and Human Liberation -- Women's Environmental Fantasies -- Women as Architects of the Future -- Index.

Summary:

"Discrimination by Design is a fascinating account of the complex social processes and power struggles involved in building and controlling space. Leslie Kanes Weisman offers a new framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of gender and race as well as class. She traces the social and architectural histories of the skyscraper, maternity hospital, department store, shopping mall, nuclear family dream house, and public housing high rise. Her vivid prose is based on exhaustive research and documents how each setting, along with public parks and streets, embodies and transmits the privileges and penalties of social caste. In presenting feminist themes from a spatial perspective, Weisman raises many new and important questions. When do women feel unsafe in cities, and why? Why do so many homeless people prefer to sleep on the streets rather than in city-run shelters? Why does the current housing crisis pose a greater threat to women than to men? How would dwellings, communities, and public buildings look if they were designed to foster relationships of equality and environmental wholeness? And how can we begin to imagine such a radically different landscape? In exploring the answers, the author introduces us to the people, policies, architectural innovations, and ideologies working today to shape a future in which all people matter. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, Discrimination by Design is an invaluable and pioneering contribution to our understanding of the issues of our time--health care for the elderly and people with AIDS, homelessness, racial justice, changing conditions of work and family life, affordable housing, militarism, energy conservation, and the preservation of the environment. This thoroughly readable book provides practical guidance to policymakers, architects, planners, and housing activists. It should be read by all who are interested in understanding how the built environment shapes the experiences of their daily lives and the cultural assumptions in which they are immersed." -- Dust Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0252018494 (alk. paper)
9780252018497 (alk. paper)
9780252063992
0252063996

Subject:

Börngen, ...
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Architecture and women United States.
Feminism and architecture.
Architecture and society.
Architecture et femmes États-Unis.
Féminisme et architecture.
Architecture et société.
Architecture and women
Architektur
Stadtplanung
Frau
Spatial behavior Sex differences.
Sex role in the work environment.
Sex discrimination in employment.
architecture femme organisation spatiale Etats-Unis.
United States
USA

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92153
Call No.: ID:93-B605
Status: Available