Lying in the Dark Room - Architectures of British Maternity

Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, both through a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today.

List of contents

1. The Dark and Airless Room 2. The Man-Midwife Enters 3. Building Hospitals, Building Bodies: The Hospital for Lying-In 4. Commonplaces-Species of Maternal Spaces

About the author

Emma Cheatle is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at 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 Hélène Frichot for for 'Jennifer Bloomer: a Revisitation', a special issue of the Journal of Architecture (2023).

Summary

Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, both through a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Cheatle, Cheatle Emma
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032389943
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238994-3
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics, MEDICAL / History, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, MEDICAL / Nursing / Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health, History of Medicine, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Gynaecology and obstetrics, History of Architecture, Gynaecology & obstetrics, Midwifery, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings