Architecture and the politics of gender in early modern Europe / edited by Helen Hills.

Title & Author:

Architecture and the politics of gender in early modern Europe / edited by Helen Hills.

Publication:

Description:

xvii, 212 pages, 52 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index.
Theorizing the Relationships between Architecture and Gender in Early Modern Europe / Helen Mills -- A Noble Residence for a Female Regent: Margaret of Austria and the 'Court of Savoy' in Mechelen / Dagmar Eichberger -- The Val-de-Grâce as a Portrait of Anne of Austria: Queen, Queen Regent, Queen Mother / Jennifer G. Germann -- The Architecture of Institutionalism: Women's Space in Renaissance Hospitals / Eunice D. Howe -- Women and the Practice of Architecture in Eighteenth-century France / Tanis Hinchcliffe -- 'Repaired by me to my exceeding great Cost and Charges': Anne Clifford and the Uses of Architecture / Elizabeth V. Chew -- 'Women in wolves' mouths': Nun's Reputations, Enclosure and Architecture at the Convent of the Le Murate in Florence / Saundra Weddle -- Spatial Discipline and its Limits: Nuns and the Built Environment in Early Modern Spain / Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt -- Spaces Shaped for Spiritual Perfection: Convent Architecture and Nuns in Early Modern Rome / Marilyn Dunn -- Women in the Charterhouse: the Liminality of Cloistered Spaces at the Chartreuse de Champmol in Dijon / Sherry C.M. Lindquist.

Summary:

Many of the contributors to this volume focus on the links between women and the architecture of religion in Europe. Some of the chapters started life as papers in sessions on gender and architecture chaired by the editor in North America in 1996 and 1998.

ISBN:

0754603091 (alk. paper)
9780754603092 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and women Europe History.
Architecture and society Europe History.
Architecture et femmes Europe Histoire.
Architecture et société Europe Histoire.
Architecture and society
Architecture and women
Geschlechterrolle
Architektur
Frau
Bouwkunst.
Vrouwen.
Europe

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Hills, Helen.
Women and gender in the early modern world.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238681
Call No.: BIB 168556
Status: Available

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