Gender and Architecture
History, Interpretation and Practice
Published on 20. April 2000
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-471-98532-7 (ISBN)
Description
Until now, the study of gender and architecture has been confined to femininity and he present. This series of case study essays is designed with the idea that by providing a framework, gender can be further explored. This book is a historically coherent package of case studies, with the final essay bridging into the contemporary.
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Content
Introduction (Richard Wrigley) A Gravity in Public Places: Inigo Jones and Classicism (Christy Anderson). 'O Tower Most Worthy of Praise!' The Paradox of Freedom, Captivity and Gender in Literary Architecture of Sixteenth--Century France (Joanne Mosley). Women on Top: Lady Margaret Beaufort's Building at Christ's College, Cambridge (Louise Durning). Architecture as Metaphor for the Body: The Case of Female Convents in Early Modern Italy (Helen Hills). Gender and the Architect: Women Clients of French Architects during the Enlightenment. Tanis Hinchcliffe. Ramblers and Cyprians: Mobility, Visuality, and the Gendering of Architectural Space. Jane Rendell. La Donna e Mobile. Esther da Costa Meyer. Harems and Hotels: Segregated City Spaces and Narratives of Identity in the Work of Oriental Women Writers (Reina Lewis). Through the Looking--Glass Darkly: Gendering the Primitive and the Significance of Constructed Apace in the Practice of the Brucke (Colin Rhodes). Consolidated Bibliography. Further Reading. Notes on Contributors.