Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870-1950

Herausgeber: Darling, Elizabeth; Whitworth, Lesley

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary collection explores the relationships between women and built space in England between the 1870s and the 1940s. Historians working in cultural, literary, architectural, urban, design, labour, and social history approach the topic through case studies of often neglected organisations, individuals, practices and initiatives. Included are East End rent collectors, tenants, diarists and correspondents, the All-Europe House, the Women's Co-operative Guild, the Housewives Committee of the Council of Industrial Design, provincial and metropolitan exhibitors, and activists of varying kinds. Moving beyond the study of buildings and their designers, the volume considers the making of space in its broadest sense, from the production of discourses to the consumption of domestic appliances and the performance of roles as diverse as social reformers, committee members and homemakers. It thereby demonstrates that women made a significant contribution to the creation of modern built environments in both public and private spheres.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780754651857
• ISBN-10: 0754651851
• Artikelnr.: 47829014

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Darling is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, Oxford Brookes University, UK. Lesley Whitworth is Assistant Curator of the Design Archives, University of Brighton, UK, and Visiting Research Fellow in the Business History Unit, London School of Economics, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Making space and re-making history
Elizabeth Darling and Lesley Whitworth; Gender
citizenship and the making of the modern environment
Helen Meller; The Hill sisters: cultural philanthropy and the embellishment of lives in late-19th century England
Anne Anderson and Elizabeth Darling; 'A novelty among exhibitions': the loan exhibition of women's industries
Bristol
1885
Emma Ferry; 'Everything whispers of wealth and luxury': observation
emulation and display in the well-to-do late-Victorian home
Trevor Keeble; Women rent collectors and the rewriting of space
class and gender in East London
1870-1900
Ruth Livesey; Gendering the politics of the working woman's home
Karen Hunt; 'The house that is a woman's book come true': the all-Europe house and 4 women's spatial practices in inter-war England
Elizabeth Darling; 'Part-time practice as before': the career of Sadie Speight
architect
Jill Seddon; Workshops fit for homeworkers: the women's co-operative guild and housing reform in mid-20th-century Britain
Gillian Scott; The Housewives' Committee of the Council of Industrial Design: a brief episode of domestic reconnoitring
Lesley Whitworth; Bibliography; Index.