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Helen Thomas

Academic, Architect, Editor, Publisher, Writer
London, UK
ETH Zürich

Helen Thomas (1964–) is an architect, writer, and publisher. She is an editor of Women Writing Architecture.

Glossary definitions from Helen Thomas

Domesticity

This important word is laden with implications, since it is often associated with the cult of domesticity developed in the U.S. and Britain during the nineteenth century that embodies a still widely-influential value system built around ideas of femininity, a woman’s role in the home, and the relationship between work and family that this sets up. When conventional boundaries of what and who constitutes a family are questioned, so too is this fixed definition of domesticity. Within writings about architecture, this extends to the physical and spatial qualities of the domestic interior, and their socio-political meanings as they change over time and geography.

Citations by Helen Thomas