The Routledge companion to modernity, space and gender / edited by Alexandra Staub.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Staub, Alexandra, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and women.

Space (Architecture)--Social aspects.

Space (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

This book reframes the discussion of modernism, space and gender; examining how "modernity" has been defined in various cultural contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, how this definition has been expressed spatially, and what effect this has had on women in their everyday lives.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

PART 1 Social Welfare as a Modern State

1 In the Name of Progress: Gender and Social Housing in Post-World War II Vienna

2 Planning for Patriarchy? Gender Equality in the Swedish Modern Built Environment

3 Modern Home, Environment, and Gender: Built, Planned, and Lived Spaces in Post-war Finland

PART 2 Liberal and Neoliberal Values

4 The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

5 Women in the Office: Clerical Work, Modernity, and Workplaces

6 Selling Desire: Gender Constructs, Social Stratification, and the Commercialization of Modern Living

7 Engendering Urban Design: An Unfinished Story

8 Zaha Hadid's Penthouse: Gender, Creativity, and "Biopolitics" in the Neoliberal Workplace

PART 3 Socialism and Beyond

9 Communist Comfort: Socialist Modernism and the Making of Cozy Homes in the Khrushchev Era

10 Women as "Socialist" Dwellers: Everyday Lives in the German Democratic Republic

11 Reclaiming Space for Women: Negotiating Modernity in Feminist Restorations in Post-socialist Eastern Germany

12 Kin-Related Elder Care in Russian Families: Challenges for Homemaking

13 Space, Body and Subjectivity in Ágnes Kocsis's Film, Fresh Air (2006)

PART 4 Modernism vs. Traditional Values

14 Unveiled Middle-Class Housing in Tehran, 1945-1979

15 Appropriating the Masculine Sacred: Islamism, Gender, and Mosque Architecture in Contemporary Turkey

16 The Emergent Gender of Rural Modernities in Turkey

PART 5 A Rapidly Globalizing World

17 Migration, Gender and Space in China

18 Migrant Women Walking Down the Cheap Road: Modernization and Being Fashionable in Shanghai

19 Space and Gender in the Chinese Workplace: Past and Present.

20 The Bungalow in the Colonial and Post-colonial Twentieth Century: Modernity, Dwelling and Gender in the Cultural Landscape of Gujarat, India

21 Gendered Household Expectations: Neoliberal Policies, Graveyard Shifts, and Women's Responsibilities in Mumbai, India

22 Reinterpreting Gender in Globalizing India: Afghan Sikh Refugees in Delhi City's Built Environment

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-367-50560-6

1-351-71944-0

1-351-71943-2

OCLC:

1021754093