This book brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. It guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas.

It includes essays by Leslie Kanes Weisman, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Audre Lorde, Mich?le Barrett, Nancy Chodorow, Luce Irigaray, Joan Wallach Scott, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Harry Brod, Judith Butler, Daphne Spain, Doreen Massey, Elizabeth Wilson, Griselda Pollock, Meaghan Morris, bell hooks, Elizabeth Grosz, Sara Boutelle, Lynne Walker, Denise Scott Brown, Dolores Hayden, Zeynep Celik, Alice T. Friedman, Joel Sanders, Elizabeth Diller, Julie Eizenberg, Hank Koning, and others.