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Women, space and utopia, 1600-1800
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ISBN: 0754652572 Year: 2006 Publisher: Aldershot : Ashgate,

Building sex : men, women, architecture, and the construction of sexuality
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ISBN: 9780688149505 0688131670 0688149502 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Morrow,

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Buildings have always been an expression of human sexuality. In this book, architecture critic and curator Aaron Betsky takes a look at the man-made world and concludes that it is just that: made by men and not women. The structure of buildings and the layout of cities in the modern world have almost always been determined by men, and the abstract and alien order of grids and columns that has resulted imprisons us in a way of living based on repression and, in some cases, oppression. By contrast, it is women who create the interior spaces within these man-created environments. Comfortable, beautiful, seductive, and logical, these interiors act as areas of escape, self-definition, and sometimes even revelation. Drawing on a wide range of architectural examples, from African mud huts to modern apartment complexes, Betsky explores what effects this division of architectural labor has had on our sensibilities and, indeed, on how we relate to one another as men and women. He believes that although it has always been thus, we do not have to live within this dichotomy between the exterior and the interior, the made and the lived, the masculine and the feminine, forever. It is possible, says Betsky, to create "spaces of liberation, spaces in which we can re-construct our selves and our world."


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Architecture and feminisms : ecologies, economies, technologies
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ISBN: 9781138304888 9781138304871 9780203729717 1138304883 1138304875 0203729714 9781351396196 1351396196 9781351396202 135139620X 9781351396219 1351396218 Year: 2017 Publisher: Abingdon : Routledge,

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Set against the background of a 'general crisis' that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that make up the book follow transversal trajectories that criss-cross between ecologies, economies and technologies, exploring specific cases and positions in relation to the themes of the archive, control, work and milieu. This collective intellectual labour can be located amidst a worldwide depletion of material resources, a hollowing out of political power and the degradation of constructed and natural environments. Feminist positions suggest ways of ethically coping with a world that is becoming increasingly unstable and contested. The many voices gathered here are united by the task of putting critical concepts and feminist design tools to use in order to offer experimental approaches to the creation of a more habitable world. Drawing inspiration from the active archives of feminist precursors, existing and re-imagined, and by way of a re-engagement in the histories, theories and projected futures of critical feminist projects, the book presents a collection of twenty-three essays and eight projects, with the aim of taking stock of our current condition and re-engaging in our precarious environment-worlds.

Architecture and feminism
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ISBN: 1568980434 9781568980430 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York: Princeton Architectural Press,

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During the second half of the 20th century, architecture and feminism have independently adopted and developed critiques of modern Western theoretical conventions and reappraised the impulse towards social reform. Beyond this parallel shift in critical perspective, how are these two seemingly disparate disciplines related? This volume addresses this question through diverse essays and projects, articles range from a definition of new possibilities for a feminist architecture to an analysis of the "Playboy" bachelor pad. Other essays include discussions of Niki de Saint-Phalle and Edith Wharton.

Design and feminism : re-visioning spaces, places, and everyday things
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ISBN: 0813526671 0813526663 9780813526676 Year: 1999 Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,

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How well do our designed environments - the places and spaces where we live, work and play - meet our aesthetic and functional needs? Increasingly, the distinction between the spaces considered public and private or work and home are becoming more blurred. As a result, innovative designs are needed to meet the challenges of our ever-changing environment. Our streets, parks, dwellings and tools are designed to a ""one-size-fits-all"" standard, and the responses of the design community to meet diverse needs have been mixed at best. This work offers feminist critiques of these inadequate design standards, and suggests ideas, projects and programmes for change. Each contributor asks how we might think differently and more inclusively about human needs in the environments in which we live and work. The interdisciplinary essays reflect the writers' diverse fields - architecture, planning, industrial and graphic design, and architectural, urban and design history. Essays cover such subjects as rethinking the American city, graphic design and the urban landscape, working at home, special needs in housing, theories of women and design, redesigning architectural education, and a photoessay on industrial designs. A review essay of the literature in these fields rounds out the collection.

The pursuit of pleasure : gender, space & architecture in Regency London
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ISBN: 0813529808 0813529816 9780813529813 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

Desiring practices : architecture, gender and interdisciplinary
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ISBN: 9780952177395 0952177390 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Black Dog


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Feminist futures of spatial practice : materialism, activism, dialogues, pedagogies, projections
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ISBN: 9783887784898 3887784898 Year: 2017 Publisher: Baunach AADR

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"Architecture and the arts have long been on the forefront of socio-spatial struggles, in which equality, access, representation and expression are at stake in our cities, communities and everyday lives. Feminist spatial practices contribute substantially to new forms of activism, expanding dialogues, engaging materialisms, transforming pedagogies, and projecting alternatives. 'Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice' traces practical tools and theoretical dimensions, as well as temporpralities, emergence, histories, events, durations - and futures - of feminist practices. Authors include international practitioners, researchers, and educators, from architecture, the arts, art history, curating, cultural heritage studies, environmental sciences, futures studies, film, visual communication, design and design theory, queer, intersectional and gender studies, political sciences, sociology, and urban planning. Established as well as emerging voices write critically from within their institutions, professions, and their activist, political and personal practices."--


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La Grande Révolution domestique : une histoire de l’architecture féministe
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ISBN: 9782490077960 2490077961 Year: 2023 Publisher: Montreuil : Editions B42,

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Ce livre dresse une histoire de l'architecture féministe en revenant sur les théories de plusieurs penseuses étasuniennes qui postulaient, dès le XIXe siècle, que la prise en charge intégrale du travail domestique par les femmes constituait une des causes fondamentales des inégalités de genre. La Grande Révolution domestique donne à voir les stratégies ayant contribué à remettre en question notre manière de concevoir les logements et les villes modernes afin d'accompagner les femmes vers une plus grande indépendance économique et permettre ainsi l'égalité sociale. Dolores Hayden analyse les sources utopiques et pragmatiques des programmes de réorganisation domestique proposés au XIXe siècle par certaines féministes et donne à voir les conflits de classe, de race et de genre qu'elles ont rencontrés. Cette tradition intellectuelle peu connue en France offre une nouvelle interprétation de l'histoire du féminisme, du logement et de l'urbanisme. En évoquant certaines initiatives visionnaires comme la mise en place de coopératives de femmes au foyer, de maisons sans cuisine, de garderies, de cuisines partagées ou de salles à manger communautaires, Dolores Hayden montre comment, aujourd'hui encore, le recours au collectif peut s'avérer être un levier de libération pour les femmes.

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