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Suffragette City - Women, Politics, and the Built Environment

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.


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Introduction; PART I: Reconfiguring communities; 1 An urban experiment in spiritual motherhood: gender, class and reform in Edwardian Edinburgh; 2 Amaza's Azurest: modern architecture and the 'New Negro' woman; 3 Life and breath to the city: women, urbanism, and the birth of the historic preservation movement; PART II: Pathfinding in the professions; 4 The 'minister of municipalities': shared space and social fabric in the work of Caroline Bartlett Crane; 5 This strange interloper: building products and the emergence of the architect-shopper in 1930s Britain; 6 Adapting and anticipating: the home planning consultancy work of Hilde Reiss and Jane Drew, 1943-45; PART III: Staking claims to urban space; 7 Almost as good as a Frank Gehry: Doris Duke, Maya Lin, and the gendered politics of public space in Newport, Rhode Island; 8 Beyond the bind: architecture, gendered agency and South African urban struggle; 9 Inroads for the outsourced: call-center graveyard shifts and women's impact on the nocturnal streets of Mumbai, India; Index


About the author

Elizabeth Darling is Reader in Architectural History in the School of History, Philosophy and Culture, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Nathaniel Robert Walker is an Assistant Professor of Architectural History at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

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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.

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