Women architects and politics

Titel: Women architects and politics : intersections between gender, power structures and architecture in the long 20th Century / Mary Pepchinski, Christina Budde (eds.)
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Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2022
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (290 Seiten)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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Architekturen ; 60
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ISBN: 9783839456309 ; 9783837656305

In the late 1960s, the feminist scholar Kate Millet broadly defined »politics« as arrangements of power which enable individuals collectively to assert authority over others. Taking this definition, case studies by scholars from Europe, Israel and the United States explore the gendered professional in the 20th century as she navigated arrangements of power including organised religion, emancipation movements, cultural norms and shifting forms of government to practice architecture. Additional contributions reflect upon power structures in contemporary architectural education, practice and history to propose other means of architectural knowledge, representation and professional activity.