Feminism
The Built Environment
Metaphorical Architecture
100

A term for history written from a feminist perspective and emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view.

What is Herstory?

100

Communal cooking spaces where individuals or families shared resources and cooking facilities to promote efficiency, affordability, and a sense of community.

What were collective kitchens?

100

The act or instance of representing oneself: such as an artistic likeness or image of oneself.

What is Self Representation?

200

In architecture, we are more likely to advocate for women through the articulations of power than of ______.

What is care?

200

The Homemakers Organization for a More Egalitarian Society offered collective services and housing cooperatives that challenged patriarchal built environments

What is the HOMES organization?

200

A term used to describe secrecy, the concealment of one’s sexual identity, and a common item that can be found in the home.

What is the closet?

300

According to Dolores Hayden, “______ must transform the sexual division of domestic labor, the privatized economic basis of domestic work, and the spatial separation of homes and workplaces in the built environment if they are to be equal members of Society.”

What are women?

300

______ in architectural discourse is a more engaged and subjective approach to criticism and theory which allowed women to be more involved in discussions that were previously run by men.

What is performativity?

300

Architecture is ________ and often means different things to the different users who experience the space. It is important for architects to represent and design for all user groups to encourage a sense of belonging.

What is symbolic?

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