Altering Practices Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space [Paperback]

This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts, it addresses the emergence of new social and political theories that raise questions of identity and difference in modern society. The book reiterates feminist concerns with space from the critical stance of the new millennium.

With contributions from the leading theorists and thinkers from around the world representing the fields of architecture, art, philosophy and gender studies, this book has a truly international and interdisciplinary reach.

Foreword: From Alterities and beyond  1. Altering practices Doina Petrescu  2. Taking Place and altering it Teresa Hoskyns, Doina Petrescu and other mixed voices  3. Evaluating Matrix: notes from inside the collective Julia Dwyer and Anne Thorne  4. An invisible privilege muf  5. How to take place (but only for so long) Jane Rendell  6. Building while being in it: notes on drawing 'otherhowKatie Lloyd Thomas  7. Stray Sods: Eight dispositions on the feminine, space and writing Brigid McLeer  8. Micro-strategies of resistance Helen Stratford  9. Altering events in architecture Anne Querrien  10. Urban curating: a critical practice towards greater connectedness Meike Shalk  11. Open kitchen or 'cookery architecture' Kim Trogal  12. Stages in the contruction of the Cite des Femmes in Dakar Women of REFDAF  13. Building Clouds, drifting walls Ruth Morrow  14. Urban tracesl«