Gender studies in architecture : space, power and difference /

Kuhlmann, Dœrte.

Gender studies in architecture : space, power and difference / Dœrte Kuhlmann - xiv, 272 pages : 25 cm.

"Adapted from a translation of Raum, Macht, Differenz: Gender in der Architektur, Edition Selene, Wien 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction -- Women in the history of art and architecture -- Biological and social differences -- Matriarchal architecture -- The tradition of psychoanalysis -- Gender in the history of architecture -- Women in ancient Greece and Rome -- Gendered spaces -- The mechanisms of the optical -- The private house -- Mechanisms of separation -- Conclusions

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Architecture and women.
Space (Architecture)--Social aspects

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