A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE OF DOMESTIC SPACE
Typology: Research
Work: Book
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: 2018
A feminist perspective of domestic space traces the lines of feminist practices and architecture. It searches diverse methodologies of analysis in order to reveal a gender-biased architecture.
DISCOURSE ︎︎︎
Defining a feminist discourse of architecture becomes a very complex and challenging task and getting closer to its definition reveals the intricacy behind the interaction of architectural space and feminist practices. Defin-ing a precise notion for such a discourse is difficult, but it is conceivable to understand architecture regarding feminist studies.
Such a discourse does exist and it is evolving, constructing and decon-structing itself.
To provide the framework for these questions it is important to submerge in the limited known history of architecture and feminism, focusing on de-signs that have been thought for women. There has been some research on this interaction, and there are partial theories about this relationship. Dis-covering this connection made evident the state of architecture in maintain-ing certain associations of power and domination that are very complex. Knowing that architecture operates as a container that creates, shapes and maintains relationships between genders, gender differences are reinforced by domesticity where architecture has played an essential role in the con-struction of gender in the domestic sphere.
Hopefully, it could also deconstruct any gender dualities in search of equal platforms of action and full and fair participation.
A feminist approach to architecture will of course focus in the search for equality, tighter social bonds and shared understandings, elements that are disappearing due to the crisis of social reproduction, and which are com-ponents that feminists have fought for in their battle for emancipation.
This approach to the understanding of the state of feminism, enhanced the realization that not only feminists have been protesting for equality, in markets and governmental aid, but conceptually they have also been fighting against domination from every domain, presented in every form. In the end it will become relevant to establish an understanding of the current living inequalities in housing that are linked to economics, politics, and culture.
A Feminist Perspective of Domestic Space Reflection Paper
A Feminist Perspective of Domestic Space
Reflection Paper