A gendered profession : the question of representation in space making /

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Imprint:London : RIBA Enterprises, 2016.
Description:280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11004319
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Other authors / contributors:Brown, James Benedict, editor.
ISBN:1859469973
9781859469972
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributor Biographies
  • Editorial
  • Part 1. Practice, Politics and Economics
  • Chapter 1. Six myths about women in architecture
  • Chapter 2. Architecture: A suitable career for a woman?
  • Chapter 3. On age and architecture
  • Chapter 4. Why men leave architecture
  • Chapter 5. G F Bodley and the gravy: Describing architecture on the tangent
  • Chapter 6. Women in architecture: Stand up and be counted
  • Chapter 7. The hero's journey: Architecture's 'long hours' culture
  • Chapter 8. Lost and found? A parable of the architect (male) and the academic (female)
  • Chapter 9. Site parade
  • Part 2. Histories, Theories and Pioneers
  • Chapter 10. The queer architect in Germany: Invisible in practice, missing from history
  • Chapter 11. Sister practices: Non-normative experiences of time and technology
  • Chapter 12. Architecture: A villainous profession
  • Chapter 13. The 'Transition' as a turning point for female agency in Spanish architecture
  • Chapter 14. Redesigning the profession
  • Chapter 15. Remembering queer space
  • Chapter 16. Women in Architecture Awards: Great or ghettoising?
  • Chapter 17. Designers of the world unite
  • Part 3. Place, Participation and Identity
  • Chapter 18. Woods and treasure
  • Chapter 19. Down to earth
  • Chapter 20. Vauxhall is burning
  • Chapter 21. On looking and learning
  • Chapter 22. Scenes of emancipatory alliances
  • Chapter 23. The eradication of London's democratic queer pubs
  • Chapter 24. Architecture 2.0
  • Part 4. Education
  • Chapter 25. Surveys, seminars, and starchitects: Gender studies and architectural history pedagogy in American architectural education
  • Chapter 26. Interiority complex
  • Chapter 27. Gender, architectural education, and the accruing of capital
  • Chapter 28. Hit Me Baby One More Time
  • Chapter 29. And then we were the 99%: Reflections on gender and the changing contours of German architectural practice
  • Chapter 30. A gendered pedagogy
  • Chapter 31. Look who's talking: Numbers matter
  • Chapter 32. Symbolic violence
  • Index
  • Picture Credits