Main entry:

Vickery, Margaret Birney, 1963-

Title & Author:

Buildings for bluestockings : the architecture and social history of women's colleges in late Victorian England / by Margaret Birney Vickery.

Publication:

Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, ©1999.

Description:

xiii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.
The "little band of pioneers" : Girton Colege -- On different terms : Newnham College -- Following the precedent : Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville, and Westfield Colleges -- A palatial residence : Royal Holloway College -- Society's reaction to the women's colleges : their architectural influence.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Vickery's book, which includes floor plans and eight pages in color, examines the intimate relationship between a Victorian institution intended solely for women and the architectural theories of the period. In doing so, she sheds light on the role of the founders, such as Emily Davies at Girton, their goals for their colleges and the pressure which a reluctant and skeptical society placed upon them. Reformers in women's education were sometimes radical feminists, but more often the women and men who were involved were modest in their approach, arguing for little change in the status of women and veiling their ambitions for women's progress under a restrained and traditional rhetoric.
This conservative approach conditioned the built environment of the colleges and is an important aspect of nineteenth-century British feminism." "Central to this book is the connection between the attitudes of Victorian society towards the higher education of women and the built environment. Feminist architectural historians and anthropologists are just beginning to explore these connections, and Vickery's book, with its focus on a gender-specific building type, offers insight into the ways in which the values of a society are encoded into the environment in which we live and work. It is therefore of interest not only to architectural historians, but to feminists, social historians, and anyone interested in the history of the collegiate environment."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0874136970 (alk. paper)
9780874136975 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Women's colleges England Buildings.
Architecture, Victorian England.
Architecture England History 19th century.
Women's colleges Social aspects England History 19th century.
Architecture England 19th century.
Collèges féminins Angleterre Constructions.
Architecture victorienne Angleterre.
Architecture Angleterre 19e siècle.
Collèges féminins Aspect social Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture Angleterre Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture, Victorian.
Women's colleges Social aspects.
Architektur
Collegestudentin
Frauencollege
Hochschulbau
Geschichte 1848-1914.
England.
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212718
Call No.: NA6605.G7 V5 1999
Status: Available