Women house / editors, Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane ; translators, Martyn Back, Rebecca Law.

"Two notions intersect in the 'Women House' exhibition: a gender (female) and a space (the domestic sphere). Architecture and public space have traditionally been male preserves, whereas domestic space has been that of women; this historic fact is not, however, inevitable, as the exhibition demonstr...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Manuella Editions (Publisher)
Musée de la monnaie (France) (Host institution, Organizer, Issuing body, Publisher)
National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.) (Host institution, Organizer, Issuing body, Publisher)
Other Authors: Morineau, Camille (Editor, Contributor)
Pesapane, Lucia (Editor, Contributor)
Zapperi, Giovanna (Contributor)
Schor, Gabriele (Contributor)
Perry, Gillian (Contributor)
Frigeri, Flavia (Contributor)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Language and/or Writing System:
Text in English, translated from the French.
Published: Paris, France : Washington, District of Columbia : Paris, France : 11 Conti Monnae de Paris ; National Museum of Women in the Arts ; Manuella, [2017]
Subjects:
Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Women artists > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Women artists > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Feminism in art > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Feminism in art > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Domestic space in art > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Domestic space in art > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Architecture, Domestic, in art > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Architecture, Domestic, in art > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Architecture, Domestic, in art.
Art, Modern.
Domestic space in art.
Feminism in art.
Women artists.
1900-2099
Exhibition catalogs.
Essays.
Illustrated works.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Essays.
Illustrated works.
Physical Description:207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, photographs ; 31 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Remembering 'Womanhouse', 1972 / Judy Chicago
  • From the Housewife to the Nana-Maison: Domesticity as a Key Theme for Women Artists / Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane
  • Our Bodies, Ourselves / Giovanna Zapperi
  • The Death of the Housewife / Gabriele Schor
  • Traces of Home and Chances of Skin / Gill Perry
  • Nomadic Fictions / Flavia Frigeri
  • And What About the Men? / Lucia Pesapane
  • Desparate Housewives
  • Home is Where it Hurts
  • A Room of One's Own
  • A Doll's House
  • Marks
  • Construction as Self-Construction
  • Mobile Homes
  • Femmes-maisons.