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CMYK current titles/2022
This collection was put together by the Women Writing Architecture editors, who analysed and gathered the titles of books written or edited by women that appeared within the Architecture and Landscape Design section of CMYK’s online shop. Out of 263 titles we found 89 female-authored publications, which constitute this collection. For more check out @CMYK_BOOKSTORE
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Mary Norman Woods on Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
Published in 1971, Linda Nochlin’s essay was truly a clarion call. Written amidst the Second Wave of feminism, it has had many afterlives in books, journals, conferences, and course syllabi. It helped to create entire fields like women’s and queer studies. And it has resonated in disciplines and professions far beyond the arts and architecture. […]
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Expanding Agency
This informal collection has been made by Kathleen James-Chakraborty and is based on her reading over one and a half years for an ERC project that she is leading called Expanding Agency: Women Race and the Global Dissemination of Global Architecture The research project explores four ways in which women and ethnic minorities had an […]
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Paul Grieguszies on Caliban and the Witch
What I take from Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch is how the condemnation of mostly lower-class women for witchcraft was used as a disciplinary instrument to silence and domesticate them. Federici’s connection with Marxist and Foucauldian theories are important because they fill out the missing gaps that her male predecessors left out. But for […]
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Fantastic refuge
Throughout history, women have relied on places outside the mainstream in order to find a place where they can accomplish intellectual work. Sometimes these are physical places, other times they are mental constructions or propositions. This collection brings together some example citations from the Women Writing Architecture bibliography that can be used as a starting […]