Item Number: 144855 Title: Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe Author: Hills, Helen (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781138275836 Description: London-New York: Routledge, 2017. 24cm., pbk., 232pp. illus. Paperback reprint of 2003 edition. Summary: Contents: Introduction: Theorizing the relationships between architecture and gender in early modern Europe, Helen Hills; Production: architects and patrons: A noble residence for a female regent: Margaret of Austria and the construction of the 'Court of Savoy' in Mechelen, Dagmar Eichberger; The Val-de-GrĂ¢ce as a portrait of Anne of Austria: Queen, Queen Regent, Queen Mother, Jennifer G. Germann; The architecture of institutionalism: women's space in renaissance hospitals, Eunice D. Howe; Women and the practice of architecture in 18th-century France, Tanis Hinchcliffe; Practice and Resistance: 'Repaired by me to my exceeding great cost and charges': Anne Clifford and the uses of architecture, Elizabeth V. Chew; 'Women in wolves' mouths': nun's reputations, enclosure and architecture at the convent of the Le Murate in Florence, Saundra Weddle; Spatial discipline and its limits: nuns and the built environment in early modern Spain, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt; Spaces shaped for spiritual perfection: convent architecture and nuns in early modern Rome, Marilyn Dunn; Women in the charterhouse: the liminality of cloistered spaces at the Chartreuse de Champmol in Dijon, Sherry C. M. Lindquist.
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