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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.
a trans history
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Manion, Jen
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2020
- Thesaurus
- transgenders, historisch, pioniers, relaties, Verenigde Staten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. From the colonial era to just before the First World War, Manion uncovers the personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment. This book weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom, while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women's rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of 'female husband' in the early twentieth century.
a social history of the debutante
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Richardson, Kristen
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- WER 32 2020
- Thesaurus
- huwelijksgebruiken, riten, huwelijken, dochters, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, vorstenhuizen, adel, hogere klasse, internationaal, historisch, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, 2000-2009, 2010-2019
- Description
- The author researched the history of the debutante ritual, a highly choreographed tribal rite. It begins in England six hundred years ago when wealthy fathers needed an efficient way to find appropriate husbands for their daughters. She traces the social seasons of young women on both sides of the Atlantic (London, Philadelphia, the American South, New York), often through their own words from diaries, letters, and interviews that Richardson conducted at contemporary balls. While exploring why the debutante tradition persists - and spread to Russia, China, and others nations - the author uncovered the cultural influence on the lives of daughters and ideas of women, courtship and marriage.
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