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OverviewSHORTLISTED FOR THE COLVIN PRIZE 2021! Awarded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, the Colvin Prize is one of the world's most prestigious honors in the field of architectural history. The medal is awarded annually to the author or authors of an outstanding work of reference of broad importance to the discipline; all modes of publication are eligible, including catalogues, gazetteers, digital databases and online resources. Suffragette City was nominated due to the new ways in which its contributors cast light on the work of women to shape the architecture of communities around the English-speaking world. 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. Throughout much of modern history, women have been assigned to the margins and expected to play passive social roles. Suffragette City draws on nineteenth- and twentieth-century architectural case studies from the English-speaking world, including the USA, South Africa, Scotland, India and England, to examine places and moments when women stepped into the centre of public life and claimed opportunities to shape the fabrics of their communities. Their engagements with the built environment consistently transcended architecture to achieve the level of urbanism, as whole networks of relationships came into their purview, transforming the architecture of socio-political connection as well as the confronting the physical divisions that have historically lain along racial, economic and gendered lines. Academics, researchers and students engaged in architectural history, theory, urbanism, gender studies and social and cultural history will be interested in this fascinating, politically-charged text. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth Darling (Oxford Brookes University, UK) , Nathaniel Walker (The College of Charleston, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.412kg ISBN: 9781138571648ISBN 10: 1138571644 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 11 September 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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; IndexReviewsSuffragette City provides many surprises. These lively essays document women's activist coalitions aimed at reforming housing and the built environment in several national contexts. Highly recommended for readers interested in the history of feminism, architecture, and city life. Dolores Hayden, author of The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities, Professor Emerita, Yale University Suffragette City provides many surprises. These lively essays document women's activist coalitions aimed at reforming housing and the built environment in several national contexts. Highly recommended for readers interested in the history of feminism, architecture, and city life. Dolores Hayden, author of The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities, Professor Emerita, Yale University Suffragette City: Gender, Politics and the Built Environment is a wonderful book-a remarkable, timely achievement. Clearly written with verve and with conviction, and using little-known and important examples, the authors share stories of women in architecture and their work to build a better, more just, more equitable world. It is indispensable reading for architects, activists, historians, and women everywhere. Marta Gutman, The City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center In the spirit of Emmeline Pankhurst, this valuable collection of histories emphasizes deeds, not words : Suffragette City describes a metaphorical place where women design and preserve their cities, transform the professions that marginalized them, and reinvent their homes and architecture in ways previously unimagined by men. It is also, in the end, a call for new deeds to achieve equal rights to the city and to the professions that shape the built environment. Peter L. Laurence, author of Becoming Jane Jacobs Author InformationElizabeth 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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