Gender, class, and shelter / edited by Elizabeth Collins Cromley and Carter L. Hudgins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cromley, Elizabeth C., editor.

Hudgins, Carter L., editor.

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

University of Tennessee Press, copyright holder.

Series:

Perspectives in vernacular architecture (Knoxville, Tenn.) ; 5.

Perspectives in vernacular architecture ; 5.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vernacular architecture--United States.

Vernacular architecture.

United States.

Architecture and society--United States.

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

xiv, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1995]

Summary:

Excerpt from preface: "The study of vernacular architecture has been the special focus of members of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, a group founded in 1980. For us, the term 'vernacular' points to both a subject matter and a mode of study. The vernacular is the language spoken at home: it is informal and intimate. When applied to architectural objects, it identifies that body of buildings and landscapes made for everyday use. When used to identify a method, 'vernacular' studies suggest an analysis of everyday qualities: common uses for buildings, the ethnic traditions of builders and building users, or the meanings embodied in buildings and landscapes that preserve and convey cultural knowledge to the next generation."

Contents:

Architecture and difference : theories and case studies instigated by gender as a category of analysis. Gender as a category of analysis in vernacular architecture studies / Angel Kwolek-Folland

"I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok" : the built environment and varied masculinities in the industrial age / Deryck W. Holdsworth

The Masonic lodge room, 1870-1930 : a sacred space of masculine spiritual hierarchy / William D. Moore

Grammar, codes, and performance : linguistic and sociolinguistic models in the study of vernacular architecture / Michael Ann Williams and M. Jane Young

Architecture and the meaning of institutions. Building an urban identity : the clustered spires of Frederick, Maryland / Diane Shaw

"A school house well arranged" : Baltimore public school buildings on the Lancasterian plan, 1829-1839 / Peter E. Kurtze

Letting in "the world" : (re)interpretive tensions in the Quaker meeting house / Susan Garfinkel

Architecture, ethnicity, and race. Mañana, mañana : racial stereotypes and the Anglo rediscovery of the Southwest's vernacular architecture, 1890-1920 / Abigail A. Van Slyck

Association, residence, and shop : an appropriation of commercial blocks in North American Chinatowns / Christopher L. Yip

"Snug li'l house with flue and oven" : nineteenth-century reforms in plantation slave housing / John Michael Vlach

Architecture and popular culture. Cheap and tasteful dwellings in popular architecture / Jan Jennings

Cheap, quick, and easy, part II : pressed metal ceilings, 1880-1930 / Pamela H. Simpson

The Eichler home : intention and experience in postwar suburbia / Annmarie Adams

Rural adaptations of suburban bungalows, Sussex County, Delaware / Susan Mulchahey Chase

Architecture in rural and urban geographies. Building in stone in southwestern Pennyslvania : patterns and process / Karen Koegler

Private dwellings, public ways, and the landscape of early rural capitalism in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley / Warren R. Hofstra

The architectural and social topography of early-nineteenth-century Portsmouth, New Hampshire / Bernard L. Herman

From roadside camps to garden homes : housing and community planning for California's migrant work force, 1935-1941 / Greg Hise.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-264) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.

ISBN:

087049872X

OCLC:

30918751