Women Writing Architecture

The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book, Fiction

For children

Xanthippe Rotstrumpf de

1977

Kari Rolfsen (illustrator)

Book, Fiction

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966

Jean Rhys

Anne-Marie Armstrong on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

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Book, Fiction

White is for Witching

2009

Helen Oyeyemi

Covid Diary, January 2022

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What I Loved

2003

Siri Hustvedt

The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

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Werde, die du bist de

1988

Hedwig Dohm

Lillemors Frauenliteratur

Fiction

Wer die Nachtigall stört de

1957

Nelle Harper Lee

After 8 recommends

Fiction

Feminism

Weird Fucks

2021

Lynne Tillman

Book, Fiction

Shared space, Vernacular

Was man von hier aus sehen kann de

2017

Mariana Leky

Tatjana Blaser on Was man von hier aus sehen kann

Being a Stranger

Book, Fiction

Contact zones

Transit

2016

Rachel Cusk

Youlhwadang Book Museum

Fiction, Novel

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Toji 토지 ko

1973

Pak Kyongni

Being a Stranger

Book, Fiction

Contact zones

To be a Man

2020

Nicole Krauss

The 11th Book : Episode 18 Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

The Yellow Wallpaper

1892

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fiction

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The Unreal and the Real

2012

Ursula K. Le Guin

Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

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The Sisters

2017

Leonora Carrington

Fiction

The Shoby Story

1990

Ursula K. Le Guin

Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Fiction

The Lost Word

1907

Evelyn Underhill

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Fiction

Feminism, Gender

The Left Hand of Darkness

1969

Ursula K. Le Guin

Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Fiction

Environment­alism, Feminism, Food

The Island of Sea Women de ko

2019

Lisa See

Soo Jin Kim on Jeju Haenyeo Collective

Book, Fiction

Contact zones, Domesticity

The House on Mango Street

1984

Sandra Cisneros

Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano on The House on Mango Street

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book, Fiction

The Heart Goes Last

2015

Margaret Atwood

On motherhood Lillemors Frauenliteratur

Book, Fiction

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The Handmaid’s Tale

1985

Margaret Atwood

Stéphanie Dadour on The Handmaid’s Tale

Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book, Fiction

The Group

1963

Mary McCarthy

Covid Diary, January 2022

Book, Fiction

The Green Road

2015

Anne Enright

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Book, Fiction

Contact zones, Spectra

The Golden Notebook

1962

Doris Lessing

Loké New Order: Unit 3 at Kingston School of Art

Book, Fiction

Contact zones

The God of Small Things

1997

Arundhati Roy

Laura Evans and Hiyala Shafeeq on The God of Small Things

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Book, Fiction

The Girls of Slender Means

1963

Muriel Spark

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Fiction

Feminism

The Dispossessed

1974

Ursula K. Le Guin

Loudreaders on The Dispossessed Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Book, Fiction

Ways of thinking, Writing

The Dictionary of Lost Words

2020

Pip Williams

Naomi Caruso on The Dictionary of Lost Words

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2017

Leonora Carrington

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Fiction, Poetry

The Bell Jar

1966

Sylvia Plath

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

Feminism

The Awakening

1899

Kate Chopin

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

Domesticity

Spunk

1925

Zora Neale Hurston

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Article, Fiction

Solid Objects

1920

Virginia Woolf

Being a Stranger

Book, Fiction

Contact zones

Radical. A Life of My Own

2023

Xiaolu Guo

A Book I Love New Order: Unit 3 at Kingston School of Art

Book, Fiction

Contact zones, Domesticity

Purple Hibiscus

2003

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Laura Evans on Purple Hibiscus Laura Evans and Finian Reece-Thomas on Purple Hibiscus

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Book, Fiction

Domesticity, Shared space

Pride and Prejudice

1813

Jane Austen

Adam Caruso on Pride and Prejudice

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Fiction

Capitalocene

Parable of the Sower

1993

Octavia E Butler

Loudreaders on Parable of the Sower

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Fiction

Panorama

2022

Merle Kröger

Lillemors Frauenliteratur Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Fiction

Gender

Orlando: A Biography

1928

Virginia Woolf

Anne-Marie Armstrong on Orlando Tatjana Blaser on Orlando

Book, Fiction

Writing

NW

2012

Zadie Smith

Rosie Gibbs-Stevenson on NW

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Book, Fiction

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No one is talking about this

2021

Patricia Lockwood

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Domesticity

Mrs Dalloway

1925

Virginia Woolf

Lillemors Frauenliteratur

Fiction

Middlemarch de

1871

George Eliot

Book, Fiction

Shared space

Metropolis de

1926

Thea von Harbou

Eliana Perotti on Metropolis

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book, Fiction

Companion Text, Life work

Mémoires d’Hadrien fr

1951

Marguerite Yourcenar

Asli Çiçek on Memoirs of Hadrian Adam Caruso on Memoirs of Hadrian

Fiction

Care, Shared space, Vernacular, Women as architects

Ma maison Kassena fr

2007

Amélie Essessé

Diane Elliott Gayer on Amélie Essesse

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Les années fr

2008

Annie Ernaux

Space as Matrix

Book, Fiction

Critique

Legend of the Necessary Dreamer

2017

Maria Fusco

Book, Fiction

Le génie Lesbien fr

2020

Alice Coffin

Stéphanie Dadour on Le génie Lesbien

Reading Room

Fiction

Gender

La Mujer Habitada es

1988

Gioconda Belli