Over the course of the last decade, women from all over the world and from different social and cultural backgrounds continued to strive for equal rights in the face of discrimination, sexism, and misogyny. Utilizing new tools and strategies for communication, this ‘fourth wave’ of feminist thinking and activism is characterized by its commitment to a ‘diversity of purpose’ that recognises intersectionality as a key issue of our time and questions established sex/gender systems and gender as a binary category.
This Special Collection explores the impact of current feminist discourse on architectural historiography. It offers critical debate on the legacy of second and third wave feminism, and asks for the ongoing relevance of the concerns and methodologies. It also highlights the potential of new strategies for documenting and researching the work of women architects, investigating the possibilities of digital tools and networked knowledge. Moreover, the collection considers histories of feminist architectural writing in relation to non-canonical geographies and takes a broader view to include LGBTIQ+ perspectives on the built environment. It offers diverse explorations of these key issues and presents necessary reflections to widen feminist enquiries in architectural discourse.
Guest Editors: Torsten Lange, Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno
Image Credit: May 8, 2017. Demonstration in Paris. Photograph by Jeanne Mejoulet.
Editorial
Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism
Torsten Lange and Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno
2020-12-18 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2020 • Volume 8 • 26
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Review
Reviews for the Special Collection on Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism 2020
Andrea J. Merrett, Inés Toscano and Olivier Vallerand
2020-12-18 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2020 • Volume 8 • 25
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Research Article
Queering California Modernism: Architectural Figurations and Media Exposure of Gay Domesticity in the Roosevelt Era
José Parra-Martínez, María-Elia Gutiérrez-Mozo and Ana-Covadonga Gilsanz-Díaz
2020-10-09 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2020 • Volume 8 • 14
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Telling Transnational Histories of Women in Architecture, 1960–2015
Karen Burns and Lori Brown
2020-10-09 Volume 8 • Issue 1 • 2020 • Volume 8 • 15
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Collections
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Women’s display. Women’s exhibitions and exhibition design in the 20th century
Building Civic Identities. Communal Palaces in Italian Urban History (14th-17th Centuries)
Intersecting Practices: Architecture and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe - Italy and the Netherlands
The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Postmodernism
Architects as Global Entrepreneurs (1850-2000)
From Ration Cards to Refugee Camps: Architecture, Bureaucracy, and the Global State of Emergency during World War One
Comprador Networks and Comparative Modernities
Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism
Marxism and Architectural Theory across the East-West Divide
Resilience in Architectural History
On Style
On the meaning of 'Europe' for Architectural History
Travel
Building Word Image: Printing Architecture 1800-1950
Objects of Belief: Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture
Culture of Crisis