Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870-1950Elizabeth Darling, Lesley Whitworth 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. |
Contents
Making Space and Remaking History | 1 |
Gender Citizenship and the Making of the Modern Environment | 13 |
Cultural Philanthropy and the Embellishment | 33 |
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Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870-1950 Elizabeth Darling No preview available - 2019 |
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All-Europe House architect architectural Archive Association Beatrice Webb BLPES Braddell Bristol Britain British built space Cambridge career Catalogue century chapter City Clifton Chronicle Co-operative COID Committee concern cottage Council of Industrial Culture Darling decoration Design History Diary discussion display DMIHE domestic space Dwellings East End Elizabeth Denby environment Exhibition female Garden gendered Hall Hill's Housewives Ibid Industrial Design interior Journal Katherine Buildings kitchen Kyrle Kyrle Society Labour Woman lady LHASC Minutes living London middle-class Misha Black modern movement Octavia Hill Oxford Pall Mall Gazette Patrick Abercrombie Patrick Geddes philanthropic political post-war practice Pycroft Queen's Villa reform rent collectors rent strike Report Review role Routledge Sadie Speight significant slum social Society space-making spatial sphere Suffrage survey taste tenants Tomrley Town Planning Toynbee Hall University of Brighton urban Victorian wartime Whilst Women's Co-operative Guild Women's Labour League Women's Organisations working-class