Gender Space Architecture

TRAMA

This book brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. It guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. It includes essays by Leslie Kanes Weisman, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Audre Lorde, Michele Barrett, Nancy Chodorow, Luce Irigaray, Joan Wallach Scott, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Harry Brod, Judith Butler, Daphne Spain, Doreen Massey, Elizabeth Wilson, Griselda Pollock, Meaghan Morris, bell hooks, Elizabeth Grosz, Sara Boutelle, Lynne Walker, Denise Scott Brown, Dolores Hayden, Zeynep Celik, Alice T. Friedman, Joel Sanders, Elizabeth Diller, Julie Eizenberg, Hank Koning, and others.

NOTE EDITORE

This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a seminal point in gender and architecture, both summarizing core debates and pointing toward new directions and discussions for the future.

SOMMARIO

Preface. Introduction. Gender. Gender, Space. Gender, Space, Architecture. Epilgue.

AUTORE

Jane Rendell teaches gender studies, urban history and architectural design at University College London, Winchester School of Art and DeMontfort University. Barbara Penner, Iain Borden lectures in architectural and urban history at The Bartlett, University College London.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415172523
• Collana: Architext
• Dimensioni: 9.75 x 6.75 in Ø 2.55 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 13 b/w images and 11 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 448