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Year
Author
Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience
Book chapter
Travel

The Female Gaze: Encounters in the Zenana

1998
Indira Ghose
Conversations in Preparation
Book
Companion Text, Feminism

The Female Eunuch

1970
Germaine Greer
Marie-José Van Hee on The Female Eunuch
After 8 recommends
Essay
Ways of thinking

The Falling

2022
Marie Lund
Drawing Matter
Online article, Review
Representation

The facade is the window to the soul of architecture: Venice Architecture Biennale, 2018

2018
Helen Thomas
Online article
Oral history, Shared space

The Evolution of Adedainkpo, Old Accra

2021
Akotowaa Ofori Lawrencia Amartey
Feminism and Architecture
Book chapter
Domesticity

The Eichler Home: Intention and Experience in Postwar Suburbia

1995
Annmarie Adams
Disabling Environments
Article
Care

The effect of exposure to the natural environment on stress reduction: A metabolic analysis

2020
Wenfei Yao
Book
Domesticity

The Edwardian House: The Middle-class Home in Britain 1880-1914

1993
Helen C Long
Annmarie Adams on The Edwardian House
Book
Companion Text, Travel

The Dust Roads of Monferrato

1989
Rosetta Loy
Marie-José Van Hee on The Dust Roads of Monferrato
Space as Matrix
Book
Ways of feeling

The Dream and the Word

2012
Susan Hiller
Researching Encounters
Book
Domesticity

The Domestic Space Reader

2012
Chiara Briganti (editor) Kathy Mezei (editor)
Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)
Article
Gender

The Diversity of Women’s Engagement with Modern Architecture and Design: Three Case Studies

2019
Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Loudreaders
Fiction
Feminism

The Dispossessed

1974
Ursula K. Le Guin
Loudreaders on The Dispossessed Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Parlour Reading Room 3: Collective access
Shared space

The Disordinary Architecture Project: A Handy guide for doing disability differently in architecture and urban design

2018
Jos Boys
On motherhood
Book
Companion Text, Feminism, Motherhood

The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents’ Activism in Chicago Public Housing

2004
Roberta M. Feldman Susan Stall
Rebecca Siefert on The Dignity of Resistance
Book, Fiction
Ways of thinking, Writing

The Dictionary of Lost Words

2020
Pip Williams
Naomi Caruso on The Dictionary of Lost Words
in:dépendance at Furka Pass
Book, Diary
Life work

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

1010
Murasaki Shikibu Richard Bowring (translator)
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Feminism

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

1970
Shulamith Firestone
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

The Destruction of the City of Homs

2017
Deanna Petherbridge
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

The Decorative Arts in France, 1900 – 1942

1990
Suzanne Tise Yvonne Brunhammer
Decoratoresses
Book
Domesticity

The Decoration of Houses

1898
Edith Wharton Ogden Codman
Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021
Book chapter, Fiction
For children

The Debutante

2017
Leonora Carrington
Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book
Capitalocene

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution

1980
Carolyn Merchant
Urban Design Group Library ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book
Shared space

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

1960
Jane Jacobs
Martina Bischof on Death and Life of Great American Cities
Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments
Article
Gender, Shared space

The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes

2019
Caroline Criado Perez
Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Lecture, Poetry
Ways of thinking

The Current of the River of Life Moves Us

1979
Agnes Martin
Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Book
Feminism

The Creation of Patriarchy

1986
Gerda Lerner
Autobiography
Companion Text

The Cost of Living

2018
Deborah Levy
Natália Peťková on Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living & Real Estate
Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress
Online article

The Contemporary Ruin – Material Frictions in Times of Flux

2019
Charly Blödel
CMYK current titles/2022
Book
Domesticity

The Contemporary House

2018
Ellie Stathaki Jonathan Bell
Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism WAI Architecture Think Tank
Book
Feminism

The Combahee River Collective Statement

1977
The Combahee River Collective
WAI Think Tank on The Combahee River Collective Statement
Book
For children

The Clan of the Cave Bear

1890
Jean M. Auel
Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Clan of the Cave Bear
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Shared space

The City of the Floating World: Paris

1991
Elizabeth Wilson
Urban Design Group Library
Book
Shared space

The City as Resource. Text and Projects 2005- 2014

2014
Myriam Perret (editor) Tim Rieniets (editor) Nicolas Kretschmann (editor) Chair of Prof. Kees Christiaanse (editor)
Eureka! Touring Library
Book
Contact zones

The Citadel: A Trilogy

2022
Mame-Diarra Niang
Researching Encounters
Book
Domesticity

The Choreography of Everyday Life

2022
Annie-B Parson
Finnish Women Writing
Online article
Women as architects

The Changing Careers of Women Architects

2017
Pirkko-Liisa Schulman
Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II
Article
Feminism, Shared space

The Case for Safe Spaces

2016
Anne-Laure White
On success Can Writing Be Activism? Cyberfeminism Index ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Spring Semester Readings 2022 Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021 Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020
Essay
Feminism, Friendship

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

1988
Ursula K. Le Guin
Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction  Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Helen Thomas, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism?
Disabling Environments
Book
Care

The Cancer Journals

2006
Audre Lorde
Architectural Theory & Gender Studies
Article
Domesticity

The Bottom Line Labourers of the Outsourcing Industry: A Study of the Domestic Labour of Married Women in Seoul ko

2023
Mihyun Jang
bodymind
Article
Spectra

The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain

2015
Margaret Price
bodymind
Online article
Spectra

The Bodymind Problem

2015
Allison Harper Hitt
Caryatide: Always work in progress
Book chapter
Care, Environment­alism, Spectra

The Body We Care for: Figures of Anthropo-zoo-genesis

2004
Vinciane Despret
Drawing Matter
Online article
Representation

The Black Drawings of Marie-José van Hee

2016
Helen Thomas
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Fiction, Poetry

The Bell Jar

1966
Sylvia Plath
Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender
Book
Feminism, Gender

The Beauty Myth

2002
Naomi Wolf
Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles
Book
Travel

The Beauties of the Bosphorus

1814
Julia Pardoe
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck
Article, Lecture, Monograph
Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

The Bauhaus Women Architects: Dicker, Meyer-Waldeck and Wilke

2022
Josenia Hervás y Heras
Novel
Travel, Writing

The Baudelaire Fractal

2020
Lisa Robertson
Elisabeth Gellein on Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture