Architects, angels, activists and the city of Bath, 1765-1965
Subtitle: engaging with women's spatial interventions in buildings and landscape
By: Cynthia Imogen Hammond
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781409400431
Subjects: Architecture and women; Feminism and architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Getting to Bath; title: Architects. The winged architect and the gendering of architecture; title: Architecture and gender in Bath, or How Selina Hastings' Gothic chapel became the building of (Georgian) Bath Museum; title: Angels. Falling women : the angels of Bath Abbey; title: Whispering walls : artistic interventions as a means to trouble the architectural imaginary; title: "The ghost of Ladymead" : the Bath Female Home and Penitentiary; title: Activists. Every tree a staunch heart : the history of the Suffragettes' Wood; title: The Suffragettes' Orchard : towards a description of research-creation; title: Beyond angels, beyond architects : mapping the feminist landscape; title: Conclusion. Leaving Bath : looking to the built past, on behalf of the lived future.