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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458057403321

Titolo

Negotiating domesticity : spatial productions of gender in modern architecture / / edited by Hilde Heynen and Gulsum Baydar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-29551-0

1-280-21745-6

9786610217458

0-203-47947-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BaydarGulsum

HeynenHilde

Disciplina

720/.1/03

Soggetti

Architecture and women

Feminism and architecture

Architecture, Domestic

Space (Architecture)

Women - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Modernity and domesticity: tensions and contradictions / Hilde Heynen. -- Figures of wo/man in contemporary architectural discourse / Gülsüm Baydar. -- "A citizen as well as a housewife": new spaces of domesticity in 1930s London / Elizabeth Darling. -- The housewife, the builder, and the desire for a polykatoikìa apartment in postwar Athens / Ioanna Theocharopoulou. -- Promoting Catholic family values and modern domesticity in postwar Belgium / Fredie Floré. -- Rehearsing domesticity: postwar Pocono honeymoon resorts / Barbara Penner. -- "Only where comfort ends, does humanity begin": on the "coldness" of avant-garde architecture in the Weimar period / Karina Van Herck. -- The uncanny architect: fears of lesbian builders and deviant homes in modern Germany / Despina Stratigakos. -- A queer analysis of Eileen Gray's E.1027 / Katarina Bonnevier. -- An architecture of twenty words:



intimate details of a London blue plaque house / Lilian Chee. -- Denatured domesticity: an account of femininity and physiognomy in the interiors of Frances Glessner Lee / Laura J. Miller. -- Unequal union: La Casa Estudio de San Angel Inn, c. 1929-1932 / Ernestina Osorio. -- Looking at/in/from the Maison de Verre / Christopher Wilson. -- Mediating houses: Marie-José Van Hee's domestic architecture / André Loeckx. -- Photography's veil: reading gender and Loos' interiors / Charles Rice. -- The modernist boudoir and the erotics of space / Anne Troutman.

Sommario/riassunto

In the home the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible. Negotiating Domesticity investigates the many and complex themes evoked by the interconnections between these terms.Topics covered include famous as well as less well-known architectural examples and architects, which are explored from sociological, anthropological, philosophical and psychoanalytical approaches. The authors explore the relationships between modern domestic spaces and sexed subjectivities in a broad range of geographical locations of Western modernity.This