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.
Women.
Womyn.

Added entries:

Heynen, Hilde.
Baydar, Gulsum.

Holdings:

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