Only resistJane Rendell
The Architectural Review, Volume 243, Issue 1449, Pages 8-, 2018
In the 1990s, the drawn and written projects of the American architect and critic, Jennifer Bloomer, aimed to reveal the insufficiency of logical and rational structures such as spoken language to explain the world, and instead brought into operation the irrational and subversive elements in written texts--the feminine. Drawing parallels between the creation of a building, assumed to be a clean act of control and precision, and the mess of childbirth, Bloomer questioned the gender of creativity. Here, Rendell suggests five particular qualities might characterise a specifically feminist approach to critical spatial practice.
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