Suffragette City: Women, Politics, and the Built Environment

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781351333917

Related ISBNs:

9780203702628, 9781138571631, 9781138571631, 9781138571648, 9781138571648

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/06/19

Copyrighted By:

Nathaniel R. Walker, Elizabeth Darling

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Elizabeth Darling

Edited by:

Nathaniel Robert Walker