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women, politics, and the built environment
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- 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.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Scelfo, Julie
- Creator
- Heald, Hallie > (ill.)
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2016
- Thesaurus
- steden, beroepen, pioniers, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, lesbische vrouwen, immigranten, biografieën, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, biografisch woordenboek
- Description
- A collection of short biographies of women who made a contribution to the making of New York City, United States of America. Many are famous, but others led quieter, private lives, but were just as influential. The research included interviews with people who stuied specific aspects of the City's history (like musical theater, law enforcement, and education), social justice movements (like immigration, labor, abolitionism, suffrage, and LGBTQ concerns), groups that represented varous professions, organizations deoted to individual ethnic groups, museums, architects and city planners and zoning specialists. .Themes in the book are: settlers, revolutionaries, caretakers, builders, liberators, poets, Statue of Liberty, advocates, Wall Street, benefactors, funders, ambassadors, Madison Avenue, actrices, lesbian women, madams, news makers, Harlem renaissance, crooks, authorities, actrices, editors, style setters, artists, soundtrack to the ciry, mythmakers, icons, educators, politicians, preservationists, counterculturists, intellects, loudmouths, nightclub owners, grocers, restaurateurs, tastemakers, immigrants, ushers, entertainers, writers. With quotes and illustrations.
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