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REVALUING GENDER-BASED SYMBOLISM IN ARCHITECTURE
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VENOY, MELISSA DAWN
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2003, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning : Architecture.
Abstract
American Architecture has long been a quest to establish a powerful symbolism that reflects the values of the society, and it seems as if those symbols were created with ideas that are manifest in patriarchy. The question, then, that needs to be addressed by architecture today is, if valued patriarchal symbols exist, is it possible for valued matriarchal symbols to exist as well? In examining the symbolism and values embodied in the traditional gender-based symbols of the skyscraper (male) and the home (female), can an approach combining feminist theory and architectural theory can begin to question the values assigned to gender-based power symbols in architecture, thereby creating an architecture that expresses the value of matriarchal and patriarchal symbols equally?
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David Niland (Advisor)
Pages
91 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
gender-based symbolism in architecture
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Marxist Feminist Theory
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Existentialist Feminist Theory
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reproductive rights
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matriarchal &
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patriarchal symbolism
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VENOY, M. D. (2003).
REVALUING GENDER-BASED SYMBOLISM IN ARCHITECTURE
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053382240
APA Style (7th edition)
VENOY, MELISSA.
REVALUING GENDER-BASED SYMBOLISM IN ARCHITECTURE.
2003. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053382240.
MLA Style (8th edition)
VENOY, MELISSA. "REVALUING GENDER-BASED SYMBOLISM IN ARCHITECTURE." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053382240
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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