Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture,9780415341387

Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415341387
ISBN10: 0415341388
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-06-23
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

The home is the very place where the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible. This book investigates the multi-layered themes evoked by the interconnections between these terms.

Table of Contents

Illustration credits vii
Notes on contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Modernity and domesticity: tensions and contradictions 1(29)
Hilde Heynen
2 Figures of wo/man in contemporary architectural discourse 30(17)
Gülsüm Baydar
Gendered subjects 47(74)
3 "A citizen as well as a housewife": new spaces of domesticity in 1930's London
49(16)
Elizabeth Darling
4 The housewife, the builder, and the desire for a polykatoikia apartment in postwar Athens
65(18)
Joanna Theocharopoulou
5 Promoting Catholic family values and modern domesticity in postwar Belgium
83(20)
Fredie Floré
6 Rehearsing domesticity: postwar Pocono honeymoon resorts
103(20)
Barbara Penner
Sexual articulations 121(92)
7 "Only where comfort ends, does humanity begin": on the "coldness" of avant-garde architecture in the Weimar period
123(22)
Karina Van Herck
8 The uncanny architect: fears of lesbian builders and deviant homes in modern Germany
145(17)
Despina Stratigakos
9 A queer analysis of Eileen Gray's E.1027
162(19)
Katarina Bonnevier
10 An architecture of twenty words: intimate details of a London blue plaque house
181(15)
Lilian Chee
11 Denatured domesticity: an account of femininity and physiognomy in the interiors of Frances Glessner Lee
196(17)
Laura J. Miller
Spatial practices 213(102)
12 Unequal union: La Casa Estudio de San Angel Inn, c. 1929-1932
215(19)
Ernestina Osorio
13 Looking at/in/ from the Maison de Verre
234(18)
Christopher Wilson
14 Mediating houses: Marie-Jose Van Hee's domestic architecture
252(29)
André Loeckx
15 Photography's veil: reading gender and Loos' interiors
281(15)
Charles Rice
16 The modernist boudoir and the erotics of space
296(19)
Anne Troutman
Index 315

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