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Architecture in the Family Way

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Adams argues that the many significant changes seen in this period were due not to architects' efforts but to the work of feminists and health reformers. Contrary to the widely held belief that the home symbolized a refuge and safe haven to Victorians, Adams reveals that middle-class houses were actually considered poisonous and dangerous and explores the involvement of physicians in exposing "unhealthy" architecture and designing improved domestic environments. She examines the contradictory roles of middle-class women as both regulators of healthy houses and sources of disease and danger within their own homes, particularly during childbirth. Architecture in the Family Way sheds light on an ambiguous period in the histories of architecture, medicine, and women, revealing it to be a time of turmoil, not of progress and reform as is often assumed.

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ISBN: 9780773522398
Publication date: 30th April 2001
Author: Annmarie Adams
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 240 pages
Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
Genres: Architecture: residential and domestic buildings
Theory of architecture
Feminism and feminist theory
Environmental factors
History of art
History of ideas
History of medicine