Gender and Modern Architecture

Research Sources and Tips

Chao Chen, Research Librarian (chao.chen@tufts.edu; 617-627-2057)
Tisch Library, Tufts University

Reserves and Book Catalogs

Tufts University Catalog
1. (click to view) Course Reserves
2. Or, select keyword, title, or author search.

**Use WorldCat beyond Tufts.

Path of Discovery in the Catalog

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

Title	*The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice* / edited by Francesca Hughes.
Publisher	Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1996.
Subject	Women-owned architectural firms -- Management.
	Women architects -- Psychology.
	Gender identity.
	Structuralism.

A Few Readers at Tisch

book cover Hayden, Dolores
Redesigning the American dream: the future of housing, work, and family life / . HD7293 .H39 2002
GoogleBooks limited preview

Rosner, Victoria.
Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life. PR888.A7 R67 2005
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Digital Images

ARTstor (including SAHARA Project by the Society of Architectural Historians)

Great Buildings Collection (from the magazine Architectureweek, a vast collection of current and historical "photographic images, architectural drawings, maps, timelines, 3D building models, commentaties, bibliographies, (and) web links.")

Artifact (Tufts University)
(images for this course by your professor)

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920

A Digital Archive of American Architecture

Digital Archive of European Architecture

International Architecture Database

Books with images at Tisch

(architect* or building*) and united states and pictorial works

monuments and pictorial works

architect* and photo*

architect* and exhibition*

Topics Discussed in This Course blackboard

Gender and Modern Architecture

domestic reform;

images of the New Woman;

institutional changes in the architectural profession;

the question of a "feminist" aesthetic.

Databases for Journal Articles

Architecture (the Avery Index)

Women's Studies International

GoogleScholar
Tip: search within a certain collection.

*Set your Scholar Preferences to access our full texts.

*Search JSTOR or Project Muse directly here.

Special Note

Gerritsen Collection: Women's History (1543 - 1945.)
Books, pamphlets and periodicals (in full text) reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. See sample documents.

Tips on Finding Those Journal Articles

A few keywords to use in your search

(femin* or gender) and domestic* and architect*

(women or female) and aesthetic* and architect*

1. include "and" in between keywords;

2. "or" and ( ) to nest related/varied expressions;

3. " " around phrases, e.g. "women architect"

4. architect* for architect, architects, architectural, etc.

The above search methods retrieves the following citations from Avery:

Author(s):	Gordon, Beverly.
Title:	*Woman's Domestic Body: the Conceptual Conflation of Women and Interiors in the Industrial age.*
Source:	Winterthur portfolio 1996 Winter, v.31, n.4, p.[281]-301
Details:	ill., photos., ports., drawings.
Abstract:	A comparative look "at the historical conception, treatment, and decoration of the body and the house" from ca. 1870 to the 1910s, in the U.S.
	SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:	Interior design -- 19th century -- Sociological aspects -- United States. Gender issues. Sex role in architecture. Fashion -- History -- United States.
Note(s):	Includes bibliographical references.
	Request article through InterLibrary Loan

Author(s):	Booth, Christine. ; Gilroy, Rose.
Title:	Dreaming the Possibility of Change /
Source:	Built environment 1996, v.22, n.1, p.72-82
Abstract:	"This paper explores the EuroFem concept and through this the emergence of feminist ethics as a base for planning."
	SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:	City planning and women. Gender issues. Sex role in architecture. Urban design -- Sociological aspects. Urban design -- Sociological aspects. Built environments -- Sociological aspects. Feminism.
Note(s):	Includes bibliographical references.
	Request article through InterLibrary Loan

Clues in Your Search Results

Learn the language of your initial findings in a database.

Examine the initial search results to situate your topic in the critical discourse: "issues" addressed; the central debates on these issues, evidence and methods applied in analysis of these issues, and so on.

Popular Press vs Scholarly Journals

Me, critique "scholarly articles" ?

In general, you are more likely to find review of recent works in popular press prior to their being written up in (English) scholarly journals.

Journal articles tend to contain more recent discussions, while books, particularly, monographs, provide a comprehensive history of a singular subject, a building, an architect, for example.

Newspapers and Magazines:

LexisNexis Academic

Factiva

Times Digital Archive (1785 - 1985)

Historical Newspapers

Essays and Popular Magazines
Search across: Essay and General Literature (1900 -84), Art Retrospective (1929 - 84), Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (1890 – 1982).

American Periodicals(1740-1940)
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)
British Humanities Index (1962- )

OpinionArchives

Some of the oldest continuously published magazines in America, including American Spectator, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Harpers Magazine, NACLA, The Nation, The National Review, The New Republic, New York Review, and The New Yorker.