Women and the making of built space in England, 1870-1950
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 organi...
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Aldershot :
Ashgate
c2007
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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-nineteenth 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 four 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-twentieth-century Britain / Gillian Scott
- The Housewives' Committee of the Council of Industrial Design : a brief episode of domestic reconnoitring / Lesley Whitworth.
