Women Architects and Politics Society & Culture Contractor selection and tendering

Contractor selection and tendering

Immersed in the lives of the people who surround him - the immigrants building the city

As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks

progress and claims

it examines twenty buildings spanning the 20th century and places them in the context of the political

Women Architects and Politics Society & Culture Contractor selection and tenderingIn the late 1960's, the feminist scholar Kate Millet broadly defined "politics" as arrangements of power which enable individuals collectively to assert authority over others. Taking this definition, case studies by scholars from Europe, Israel and the United States explore the gendered professional in the 20th century as she navigated arrangements of power including organised religion, emancipation movements, cultural norms and shifting forms of