Suffragette city
| Subtitle | women, politics, and the built environment |
| Creator | Darling, Elizabeth > (ed.) |
| Walker, Nathaniel Robert > (ed.) | |
| Contributor | Parikh, Aparna |
| Publish Place | London |
| Publish Place | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publish Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 223p. |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9781138571648 |
| Illustration | ill. |
| Language | English/Engels |
- Shelfmark
- WER 4 2020
| Medium | boek |
| 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. |
| Categories | Book/Boek |
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