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Though Meredith Martin is primarily an art historian, this book goes way beyond art history. It examines “pleasure dairies,” built by the French aristocracy to be sites of leisure, healing, and simple luxury, from the vantage point of cultural studies as well as social and political history. The traditional historical narrative, still deeply resonant, is that these dairies were little more than frivolous excess or attempts to imagine “common life” by people so wealthy they could not even imagine poverty. But Martin complicates this picture. She examines the social, cultural, and political uses of these dairies, showing that they were in fact instrumental as sites that both reinforced and challenged definitions of femininity. The dairies provided strategic venues for noble women to assert their status and identity while at the same time appearing to retreat from power. They served the functions of a spa, where fresh milk and beautiful scenery helped women recover their health. They also are tangible evidence of the new valorization of country living, which was expressed also in political debates about improving the countryside and reforming the aristocracy, especially elite women.

Architecture and women --- Pleasure dairies --- Politics and culture --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- Dairies, Ornamental --- Dairies, Pleasure --- Laiteries d'agrément --- Ornamental dairies --- Garden structures --- Women and architecture --- Women --- History. --- Political aspects

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In the home the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible. Negotiating Domesticity investigates the many and complex themes evoked by the interconnections between these terms.Topics covered include famous as well as less well-known architectural examples and architects, which are explored from sociological, anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytical approaches. The authors explore the relationships between modern domestic spaces and sexed subjectivities in a broad range of geographical locations of Western modernity.This

Architecture and women. --- Feminism and architecture. --- Architecture, Domestic. --- Space (Architecture) --- Women --- Feminism --- Architecture and space --- Space and architectural mass --- Space in architecture --- Architecture --- City planning --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Dwellings --- Architecture and feminism --- Women and architecture --- Social conditions. --- Composition, proportion, etc. --- Negative space (Architecture)

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In this book, Lori Brown examines the relationship between space, defined physically, legally and legislatively, and how these factors directly impact the spaces of abortion. It analyzes how various political entities shape the physical landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to reproductive healthcare access, and questions what architecture's responsibilities are in respect to this spatial conflict. Employing writing, drawing and mapping methodologies, this interdisciplinary project explores restrictions and legislatures which directly influence abortion policy in the US, Mexico and Canada. It questions how these legal rulings produce spatial complexities and why architecture isn't more culturally and spatially engaged with these spaces. In Mexico, where abortion is fully legal only in Mexico City during the first trimester, women must travel vast distances and undergo extreme conditions in order to access the procedure. Conservative state governments continue to make abortion a severely punishable crime. In Canada, there are nowhere near the cultural and religious stigmas to abortion as in the US and Mexico. Completely legal and without restrictions, Canada offers an important contrast to the ongoing abortion issues within the US and Mexico. Researching the spatial implications of such a politicized space, this book expands beyond a study of abortion clinic and includes other spaces such as women's shelters and hospitals that require multiple levels of secured spaces in order to discuss the spatial ramifications of access and security within spaces that are highly personal, private, and sometimes secret or even hidden. In questioning what architecture's responsibility is in these spatial conflicts, the book looks at how what architecture 'does' can be used to reconsider the spaces and security around such contested places, and ultimately suggests what design's potential impact might be. In doing so, it shows how architecture's role might be redefined within social and spatial practices. -- Back Cover.

Architecture and women --- Architecture --- Abortion services --- Health services accessibility --- Access to health care --- Accessibility of health services --- Availability of health services --- Medical care --- Abortion clinics --- Abortion facilities --- Birth control clinics --- Women's health services --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Women and architecture --- Women --- Psychological aspects --- Access --- Design and construction --- Architecture et femmes --- Cliniques d'avortement --- Services de santé --- Aspect psychologique --- Accessibilité --- 396 --- 725.511 --- 725.5 --- 911.3:32 --- 911.3:32 Geopolitiek. Politieke geografie --- Geopolitiek. Politieke geografie --- 725.5 Gebouwen voor gezondheidszorg. Gebouwen voor sociale zorg --- Gebouwen voor gezondheidszorg. Gebouwen voor sociale zorg --- 725.511 Ziekenhuizen. Klinieken. Hospitalen --- Ziekenhuizen. Klinieken. Hospitalen --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij --- Architecture, Primitive --- Abortion --- Feminism and architecture --- Hospital architecture --- Feminisme --- Abortusklinieken ; abortuscentra --- Inclusief ontwerpen --- Toegankelijkheid van gebouwen --- Architectuur ; psychologische perceptie van gebouwen --- Hospital buildings --- Architecture and feminism --- Clinics --- Environmental psychology --- Openbare gebouwen ; ziekenhuizen, verzorgingstehuizen --- Human factors --- Reproductive health services