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Author Darling, Elizabeth

Title Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870-1950
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Making Space and Re-making History -- 1 Gender, Citizenship and the Making of the Modern Environment -- 2 The Hill Sisters: Cultural Philanthropy and the Embellishment of Lives in late-Nineteenth Century England -- 3 'A Novelty among Exhibitions': The Loan Exhibition of Women's Industries, Bristol, 1885 -- 4 'Everything Whispers of Wealth and Luxury': Observation, Emulation and Display in the well-to-do late-Victorian Home -- 5 Women Rent Collectors and the Rewriting of Space, Class and Gender in East London, 1870-1900 -- 6 Gendering the Politics of the Working Woman's Home -- 7 'The House that is a Woman's Book come True': The All-Europe House and Four Women's Spatial Practices in Inter-war England -- 8 'Part-Time Practice as Before': The Career of Sadie Speight, Architect -- 9 Workshops Fit for Homeworkers: The Women's Co-operative Guild and Housing Reform in mid-Twentieth-Century Britain -- 10 The Housewives' Committee of the Council of Industrial Design: A Brief Episode of Domestic Reconnoitring -- Bibliography -- Index
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Form Electronic book
Author Whitworth, Lesley
ISBN 9781351872201
1351872206