Gender space architecture : an interdisciplinary introduction / edited by Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner, and Iain Borden.

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TextSeries: Architext seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.Description: xvi, 432 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0415172527 (hb)
9780415172530 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

720.82 GEN 23 005123

LOC classification:

NA2543.W65 G46 2000

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Table of contents

Contents:

Prologue: 'Women's Environmental Rights: A Manifesto' / Leslie Kanes Weisman -- 1. Editors' General Introduction / Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner and Iain Borden -- pt. 1. Gender -- 2. Introduction: 'Gender' / Jane Rendell -- 3. A Room of One's Own (excerpts from Chapter 1) / Virginia Woolf -- 4. The Second Sex (excerpts from the Introduction) / Simone de Beauvoir -- 5. Excerpts from 'The Problem that Has No Name' / Betty Friedan -- 6. Excerpts from 'Some Conceptual Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis' / Michele Barrett -- 7. 'The Master's Tools will Never Dismantle the Master's House' / Audre Lorde -- 8. Excerpts from 'Why Women Mother' / Nancy Chodorow -- 9. 'This Sex Which Is Not One' / Luce Irigaray -- 10. Excerpts from 'Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses' / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- 11. Excerpts from 'Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis' / Joan Wallach Scott -- 12. Excerpts from 'The Case for Men's Studies' / Harry Brod -- 13. Excerpts from 'Subversive Bodily Acts' / Judith Butler -- pt. 2. Gender, Space -- 14. Introduction: 'Gender, Space' / Jane Rendell -- 15. 'The Partition of Space' / Shirley Ardener -- 16. Excerpts from 'The Contemporary Workplace' / Daphne Spain -- 17. 'Space, Place and Gender' / Doreen Massey -- 18. 'Men in Space' / Rosalyn Deutsche -- 19. 'Claiming the Public Space: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo' / Susana Torre -- 20. 'Into the Labyrinth' / Elizabeth Wilson -- 21. Excerpts from 'Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity' / Griselda Pollock -- 22. 'Things to Do with Shopping Centres' / Meaghan Morris -- 23. 'Everyday and "Other" Spaces' / Mary McLeod -- 24. 'Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness' / bell hooks -- 25. 'Woman, Chora, Dwelling' / Elizabeth Grosz -- pt. 3. Gender, Space, Architecture -- 26. Introduction: 'Gender, Space, Architecture' / Jane Rendell -- 27. 'Julia Morgan' / Sara Boutelle -- 28. 'Women and Architecture' / Lynne Walker -- 29. 'Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture' / Denise Scott Brown -- 30. 'What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design and Human Work' / Dolores Hayden -- 31. 'Working with Women' / Frances Bradshaw (Matrix) -- 32. 'A Feminist Approach to Architecture: Acknowledging Women's Ways of Knowing' / Karen A. Franck -- 33. Excerpts from 'The Creative Process' / Labelle Prussin -- 34. Excerpts from 'The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism' / Beatriz Colomina -- 35. Excerpts from 'Le Corbusier, Orientalism, Colonialism' / Zeynep Celik -- 36. 'Architecture, Authority and the Female Gaze: Planning and Representation in the Early Modern Country House' / Alice T. Friedman -- 37. 'Closets, Clothes, disClosure' / Henry Urbach -- 38. 'Cadet Quarters, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs' / Joel Sanders -- 39. 'Architecture from Without: Body, Logic and Sex' / Diane Agrest -- 40. 'Big Jugs' / Jennifer Bloomer -- 41. 'Bad Press' / Elizabeth Diller -- 42. Epilogue: Excerpts from 'House, 20 June 1994' / bell hooks, Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning.

Summary: This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-423) and index.

Prologue: 'Women's Environmental Rights: A Manifesto' / Leslie Kanes Weisman --
1. Editors' General Introduction / Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner and Iain Borden --
pt. 1. Gender --
2. Introduction: 'Gender' / Jane Rendell --
3. A Room of One's Own (excerpts from Chapter 1) / Virginia Woolf --
4. The Second Sex (excerpts from the Introduction) / Simone de Beauvoir --
5. Excerpts from 'The Problem that Has No Name' / Betty Friedan --
6. Excerpts from 'Some Conceptual Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis' / Michele Barrett --
7. 'The Master's Tools will Never Dismantle the Master's House' / Audre Lorde --
8. Excerpts from 'Why Women Mother' / Nancy Chodorow --
9. 'This Sex Which Is Not One' / Luce Irigaray --
10. Excerpts from 'Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses' / Chandra Talpade Mohanty --
11. Excerpts from 'Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis' / Joan Wallach Scott --
12. Excerpts from 'The Case for Men's Studies' / Harry Brod --
13. Excerpts from 'Subversive Bodily Acts' / Judith Butler --
pt. 2. Gender, Space --
14. Introduction: 'Gender, Space' / Jane Rendell --
15. 'The Partition of Space' / Shirley Ardener --
16. Excerpts from 'The Contemporary Workplace' / Daphne Spain --
17. 'Space, Place and Gender' / Doreen Massey --
18. 'Men in Space' / Rosalyn Deutsche --
19. 'Claiming the Public Space: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo' / Susana Torre --
20. 'Into the Labyrinth' / Elizabeth Wilson --
21. Excerpts from 'Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity' / Griselda Pollock --
22. 'Things to Do with Shopping Centres' / Meaghan Morris --
23. 'Everyday and "Other" Spaces' / Mary McLeod --
24. 'Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness' / bell hooks --
25. 'Woman, Chora, Dwelling' / Elizabeth Grosz --
pt. 3. Gender, Space, Architecture --
26. Introduction: 'Gender, Space, Architecture' / Jane Rendell --
27. 'Julia Morgan' / Sara Boutelle --
28. 'Women and Architecture' / Lynne Walker --
29. 'Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture' / Denise Scott Brown --
30. 'What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design and Human Work' / Dolores Hayden --
31. 'Working with Women' / Frances Bradshaw (Matrix) --
32. 'A Feminist Approach to Architecture: Acknowledging Women's Ways of Knowing' / Karen A. Franck --
33. Excerpts from 'The Creative Process' / Labelle Prussin --
34. Excerpts from 'The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism' / Beatriz Colomina --
35. Excerpts from 'Le Corbusier, Orientalism, Colonialism' / Zeynep Celik --
36. 'Architecture, Authority and the Female Gaze: Planning and Representation in the Early Modern Country House' / Alice T. Friedman --
37. 'Closets, Clothes, disClosure' / Henry Urbach --
38. 'Cadet Quarters, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs' / Joel Sanders --
39. 'Architecture from Without: Body, Logic and Sex' / Diane Agrest --
40. 'Big Jugs' / Jennifer Bloomer --
41. 'Bad Press' / Elizabeth Diller --
42. Epilogue: Excerpts from 'House, 20 June 1994' / bell hooks, Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning.

This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture.

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