Suffragette city : women, politics and the built environment / edited by Elizabeth Darling and Nathaniel Robert Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Darling, Elizabeth, editor.

Walker, Nathaniel Robert, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and women.

Space (Architecture)--Social aspects.

Space (Architecture).

Physical Description:

xi, 223 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"Suffragette City brings together a collection of illustrated essays dedicated to exploring and analysing cases in which women have resourcefully leveraged or defied the politics of gender to form and reform architecture and urbanism. Throughout much of modern history women have been assigned to the margins and expected to play passive social roles. Suffragette City draws on nineteenth- and twentieth-century architectural case studies from the English-speaking world, including the U.S.A., South Africa, Scotland, India and England, to examine places and moments when women stepped into the centre of public life and claimed opportunities to shape the fabrics of their communities. Their engagements with the built environment consistently transcended architecture to achieve the level of urbanism, as whole networks of relationships came into their purview, transforming the architecture of socio-political connection as well as the confronting the physical divisions that have historically lay along racial, economic, and gendered lines. Academics, researchers and students engaged in architectural history, theory, urbanism, gender studies and social and cultural history will be interested in this fascinating, politically-charged text"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Amaza's Azurest : Modern Architecture and the 'New Negro' Woman / by Jaqueline Taylor, City of Detroit Department of Planning and Development

'This Strange Interloper' : Building Products and the Emergence of the Architect-Shopper in 1930s Britain / by Katie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University

Inroads for the Outsourced : Call-Centre Graveyard Shifts and the Impact of Women on the Nocturnal Streets of Mumbai, India / by Aparna Parikh, Pennsylvania State University.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Suffragette city

ISBN:

9781138571631

1138571636

9781138571648

1138571644

OCLC:

1105737367