In this course, we will engage the writing of architectural histories that ask how feminism and gender theory (from eco-feminism and intersectional feminism to queer and trans theory) can spearhead new methods of research, objects of study, and ways of seeing and analyzing spaces, buildings, cities, and human alliances within them. The course is decidedly focused on forms of organizing around women?s and LGBTQ+ rights in cities ? from informal activist groups to institution building. The seminar highlights these group efforts as main sites for creative, critical, and political intervention in questioning heteronormative forms of living, care, and kinship. As such, the seminar emphasizes scholarship on gender theory that has helped reframe architectural history since the 1960s and investigates how these ideas have informed and begun to alter the discipline.
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