Title & Author:

Gender space architecture : an interdisciplinary introduction / edited by Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner, and Iain Borden.

Publication:

London ; New York : E & FN Spon, 2000.

Description:

xvi, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Architext series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-423) and index.
Prologue: 'Women's Environmental Rights: A Manifesto' / Leslie Kanes Weisman -- 1. Editors' General Introduction / Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner and Iain Borden -- pt. 1. Gender -- 2. Introduction: 'Gender' / Jane Rendell -- 3. A Room of One's Own (excerpts from Chapter 1) / Virginia Woolf -- 4. The Second Sex (excerpts from the Introduction) / Simone de Beauvoir -- 5. Excerpts from 'The Problem that Has No Name' / Betty Friedan -- 6. Excerpts from 'Some Conceptual Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis' / Michele Barrett -- 7. 'The Master's Tools will Never Dismantle the Master's House' / Audre Lorde -- 8. Excerpts from 'Why Women Mother' / Nancy Chodorow -- 9. 'This Sex Which Is Not One' / Luce Irigaray -- 10. Excerpts from 'Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses' / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- 11. Excerpts from 'Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis' / Joan Wallach Scott -- 12. Excerpts from 'The Case for Men's Studies' / Harry Brod -- 13. Excerpts from 'Subversive Bodily Acts' / Judith Butler -- pt. 2. Gender, Space -- 14. Introduction: 'Gender, Space' / Jane Rendell -- 15. 'The Partition of Space' / Shirley Ardener -- 16. Excerpts from 'The Contemporary Workplace' / Daphne Spain -- 17. 'Space, Place and Gender' / Doreen Massey -- 18. 'Men in Space' / Rosalyn Deutsche -- 19. 'Claiming the Public Space: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo' / Susana Torre -- 20. 'Into the Labyrinth' / Elizabeth Wilson -- 21. Excerpts from 'Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity' / Griselda Pollock -- 22. 'Things to Do with Shopping Centres' / Meaghan Morris -- 23. 'Everyday and "Other" Spaces' / Mary McLeod -- 24. 'Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness' / bell hooks -- 25. 'Woman, Chora, Dwelling' / Elizabeth Grosz -- pt. 3. Gender, Space, Architecture -- 26. Introduction: 'Gender, Space, Architecture' / Jane Rendell -- 27. 'Julia Morgan' / Sara Boutelle -- 28. 'Women and Architecture' / Lynne Walker -- 29. 'Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture' / Denise Scott Brown -- 30. 'What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design and Human Work' / Dolores Hayden -- 31. 'Working with Women' / Frances Bradshaw (Matrix) -- 32. 'A Feminist Approach to Architecture: Acknowledging Women's Ways of Knowing' / Karen A. Franck -- 33. Excerpts from 'The Creative Process' / Labelle Prussin -- 34. Excerpts from 'The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism' / Beatriz Colomina -- 35. Excerpts from 'Le Corbusier, Orientalism, Colonialism' / Zeynep Celik -- 36. 'Architecture, Authority and the Female Gaze: Planning and Representation in the Early Modern Country House' / Alice T. Friedman -- 37. 'Closets, Clothes, disClosure' / Henry Urbach -- 38. 'Cadet Quarters, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs' / Joel Sanders -- 39. 'Architecture from Without: Body, Logic and Sex' / Diana Agrest -- 40. 'Big Jugs' / Jennifer Bloomer -- 41. 'Bad Press' / Elizabeth Diller -- 42. Epilogue: Excerpts from 'House, 20 June 1994' / bell hooks, Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning.

Summary:

This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a seminal point in gender and architecture, both summarizing core debates and pointing toward new directions and discussions for the future.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415172527 (hb)
9780415172523 (hb)
0415172535 (pbk.)
9780415172530 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture and women.
Feminism and architecture.
Space (Architecture)
Architecture et femmes.
Féminisme et architecture.
Espace (Architecture)

Added entries:

Rendell, Jane, 1967-
Penner, Barbara, 1970-
Borden, Iain.
Architext series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318223
Call No.: 318223
Copy: 1
Status: Available