ABSTRACT
This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a seminal point in gender and architecture, both summarizing core debates and pointing toward new directions and discussions for the future.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART 1: GENDER
chapter 6|8 pages
Michèle Barrett
Excerpts from ‘Some Conceptual Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis’
chapter 10|7 pages
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Excerpts from ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses’
chapter 11|14 pages
Joan Wallach Scott
Excerpts from ‘Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis’
part |2 pages
PART 2: GENDER, SPACE
part |2 pages
PART 3: GENDER, SPACE, ARCHITECTURE
chapter 30|16 pages
Dolores Hayden
‘What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design and Human Work’*
chapter 32|11 pages
Karen A.Franck
‘A Feminist Approach to Architecture: Acknowledging Women’s Ways of Knowing’
chapter 36|10 pages
Alice T.Friedman
Excerpts from ‘Architecture, Authority and the Female Gaze: Planning and Representation in the Early Modern Country House’
chapter 42|2 pages
Epilogue: bell hooks, Julie Eizenberg, Hank Koning
Excerpts from ‘House, 20 June 1994’
