Title & Author:

Negotiating domesticity : spatial productions of gender in modern architecture / edited by Hilde Heynen and Gülsüm Baydar.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Description:

xiii, 322 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modernity and domesticity: tensions and contradictions / Hilde Heynen. -- Figures of wo/man in contemporary architectural discourse / Gülsüm Baydar. -- "A citizen as well as a housewife": new spaces of domesticity in 1930s London / Elizabeth Darling. -- The housewife, the builder, and the desire for a polykatoikìa apartment in postwar Athens / Ioanna Theocharopoulou. -- Promoting Catholic family values and modern domesticity in postwar Belgium / Fredie Floré. -- Rehearsing domesticity: postwar Pocono honeymoon resorts / Barbara Penner. -- "Only where comfort ends, does humanity begin": on the "coldness" of avant-garde architecture in the Weimar period / Karina Van Herck. -- The uncanny architect: fears of lesbian builders and deviant homes in modern Germany / Despina Stratigakos. -- A queer analysis of Eileen Gray's E.1027 / Katarina Bonnevier. -- An architecture of twenty words: intimate details of a London blue plaque house / Lilian Chee. -- Denatured domesticity: an account of femininity and physiognomy in the interiors of Frances Glessner Lee / Laura J. Miller. -- Unequal union: La Casa Estudio de San Angel Inn, c. 1929-1932 / Ernestina Osorio. -- Looking at/in/from the Maison de Verre / Christopher Wilson. -- Mediating houses: Marie-José Van Hee's domestic architecture / André Loeckx. -- Photography's veil: reading gender and Loos' interiors / Charles Rice. -- The modernist boudoir and the erotics of space / Anne Troutman.

Summary:

The home as part of material culture is the very place where the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible. This text investigates the multi-layered themes evoked by the interconnections between these terms.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415341388 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415341396 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415341387 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415341394 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and women.
Feminism and architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Space (Architecture)
Women Social conditions.
Architecture et femmes.
Féminisme et architecture.
Architecture domestique.
Espace (Architecture)
Femmes Conditions sociales.
dwellings.

Added entries:

Heynen, Hilde.
Baydar, Gulsum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238525
Call No.: BIB 168392
Status: Available