women, politics, and the built environment
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Darling, Elizabeth > (ed.)
- Creator
- Walker, Nathaniel Robert > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Parikh, Aparna
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- WER 4 2020
- Thesaurus
- architectuur, gebouwde omgeving, openbare ruimte, architecten, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, lesbische vrouwen, vrouwenorganisaties, steden, participatie, historisch, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, Zuid-Afrika, India, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Year of publication: 2019 (instead of year of publication in colophon: 2020). A collection of illustrated essays about eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century architectural case studies from the English-speaking world in which women have leveraged or defied the politics of gender to form and reform housing, architecture, urbanism and city life. Contents:
Part I Reconfiguring communities
An urban experiment in spiritual motherhood : gender, class and reform in Edwardian Edinburgh [about Jane Whyte and Lileen Hardy and the St. Saviour's Child Garden] : Amaza's Azurest : modern architecture and the 'New Negro' woman [about Amaza Lee Meredith and Edna Meade Colson and the house Azurest in Petersburg, Virginia, USA] : Life and breath to the city : women, urbanism, and the birth of the historic preservation movement [about Susan Pringle Frost, Mary Griffith and Lucia True Ames Mead].
Part II Pathfinding in the professions
The 'minister of municipalities' : shared space and social fabric in the work of Caroline Bartlett Crane [about the mother's suite] : This strange interloper : building products and the emergence of the architect-shoppers in 1930s Britain [about department store and product information library The Building Centre in London] : Adapting and anticipating : the home planning consultancy work of Hilde Reiss and Jane Drew, 1943-45.
Part III Staking claims to urban space
Almost as good as a Frank Gehry : Doris Duke, Maya Lin, and the gendered politics of public space in Newport, Rhode Island : Beyond the bind : architecture, gendered agency and South African urban struggle [about beer hostels and labour hostels] : Inroads for the outsourced : call-center graveyard shifts and women's impact on the nocturnal streets of Mumbai, India.