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Lying in the dark room : architectures of British maternity / Emma Cheatle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cheatle, Emma, author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in architecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health facilities--Great Britain--Design and construction--History.
- Health facilities.
- Women's hospitals--Great Britain--Design and construction--History.
- Women's hospitals.
- Architecture--Health aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Architecture.
- Maternal health services--Great Britain--History.
- Maternal health services.
- Childbirth--Great Britain--History.
- Childbirth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 202 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Emma Cheatle is Senior Lecturer in Architectureat the University of Sheffield, UK. She trained as an architect in London and has a PhD in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (awarded RIBA President's Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, 2014). Her research combines critical architectural history and theory with creative writing to explore architecture, art and urban space through histories and ideas of health, domesticity and gender. Emma is author of Part-Architecture: The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris (2017), chief editor of field: journal, the UK Editor for the Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2015 (2023) and co-editor with Héln̈e Frichot for for 'Jennifer Bloomer: a Revisitation', a special issue of theJournal of Architecture (2023).
- Contents:
- Ensemble
- writing a creative-critical architectural history
- The dark and airless room
- The man midwife enters
- Building hospitals, building bodies: the hospital for lying in
- Commonplaces
- species of maternal spaces.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 14, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Cheatle, Emma. Lying in the dark room
- ISBN:
- 9781003348412
- 1003348416
- 9781003811350
- 1003811353
- 100381137X
- 9781003811374
- Publisher Number:
- 40032190268
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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