Gender and the Built Environment - A Resource for Teaching and Learning

Resources

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International Organizations concerned with Gender and Built Environment

Huairou Commission www.huairou.org

Women in Cities International www.femmesetvilles.org

Women and Habitat (LAC) Network www.redmujer.org.ar

UNHabitat Gender Policy Unit www.unhabitat.org/genderpolicy

 

Examples of Gender Focused Built Environment Materials

Research: Gender roles in Ndebele Home-making

Conference: Gender, Social Change and the Built Environment

Paper: Gendered Cities: Built and Physical Environments by Prabha Khosla

Paper: Why gender matters by Jo Beall

Bibliography: Women and Gender in International Development by Ashwani Vasishth

International Archive of Women in Architecture

 

 

Readers

Susan S. Fainstein and Lisa J. Servon, (2005) Gender And Planning: A Reader, Rutgers, New Jersey.

Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner, and Iain Borden, eds. (2000) Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, Routledge,

Joan Rothschild, (2005) Design and Feminism : Re-Visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things, Rutgers, New Jersey.

 

Journals

Peer Reviewed Journals

Women and Environments

Gender, Place and Culture

 

Tertiary Courses

Syllabi

Gender, Territory and Urban Space: Dolores Hayden, Yale University
http://www.architecture.yale.edu/courses/spring_2006/urbanism_landscape/922b/922b.htm

Gender, Sexuality, and the City: Jessica Sewell, New York University
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~urban/teach/syllabi/sewell2002syl1.htm

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in the City: Marc Stein, Bryn Mawr College
http://www.h-net.org/~urban/teach/syllabi/stein1995syl1.htm

Gender and Built Environments: Ellen Balka, Simon Fraser University
http://www.sfu.ca/~ebalka/built.htm

Gender, Architecture, and Space: Despina Stratigakos, Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/womenstudy/syllabi/FL03_1405.htm

Genders & Architectures: John Paul Ricco, University of Kentucky
http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/QueerInfo/ricco.htm

Gender and Development, With A Focus on Housing: Hemalata C. Dandekar, University of Michigan
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hema/UP659Syllabus.htm
 
Gender and Race in Contemporary Architecture: Kathryn H. Anthony, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www2.arch.uiuc.edu/kanthony/arch-ws424FA02/Syllabus.htm

Liguid Assets and Water Wars: Gender and the Global Water Crisis http://www.fas.harvard.edu/womenstudy/syllabi/FL03_1401.htm

Rhetoric of Feminist Spaces
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~hogan/spring04/Syllabus.html

 

Assignments and Exercises

Kathryn Anthony:

DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE

RESTROOMS

Kristen Hogan:

CATALOGUE OF FEMINIST SPACES

MOO PROJECT: TAKING PART IN FEMINIST WRITING SPACE

COMMUNITY WRITING PROJECT AND CONTEXT DOCUMENTS

 

On-line Bibliographies

Women in Architecture, University of Maryland Libraries, USA

Vernacular Architecture Forum Bibliography, results for search term "women", USA

Place and Space in Gender Studies, Feminism, Sexuality, and Queer Theory, USA