Main entry:

Kuhlmann, Dörte, author.

Title & Author:

Gender studies in architecture : space, power and difference / Dörte Kuhlmann.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Description:

xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"Adapted from a translation of Raum, Macht, Differenz: Gender in der Architektur, Edition Selene, Wien 2005."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-260) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Women in the history of art and architecture -- Biological and social differences -- Matriarchal architecture -- The tradition of psychoanalysis -- Gender in the history of architecture -- Women in ancient Greece and Rome -- Gendered spaces -- The mechanisms of the optical -- The private house -- Mechanisms of separation -- Conclusions.

Summary:

Analyzing a range of ideas from biological, evolutionary and anthropological theories to a variety of feminist, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and constructivist discourses, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the problematics of gender and power in architectural and urban design.

ISBN:

9780415622950 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415622956 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415623001 (pb ; alk. paper)
0415623006 (pb ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9780203522554

Subject:

Architecture and women.
Space (Architecture) Social aspects.
Architecture et femmes.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect social.
gender analysis.
building construction.
women's participation.
history.
Rummet (arkitektur) sociala aspekter.
Arkitektur genusaspekter.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284110
Call No.: BIB 222746
Status: Available