In the Daylight of Our Existence: Architectural History and the Promise of Queer Theory takes June Jordan's 1991 call for radical environmental transformation as its founding premise, applying queer and feminist theory directly to architectural history, urbanism, and spatial politics.
About This Book
Beginning with poet and professor June Jordan's challenge to imagine spaces where affection and identity can be expressed openly and without fear, this collection builds a methodological framework for writing queer and feminist architectural histories. Its scope moves across planning and urbanism, acts of spatial refusal and resistance, and the communal and health-related spaces that women have built and occupied across multiple cities. The book does not treat queer theory as supplementary to architectural history — it positions environmental transformation as inseparable from a politics of gender and sexuality. Essential reading for anyone rethinking how normative assumptions about bodies, domesticity, and public life are encoded in the built environment.
Key Features
- 280 pages of theoretical essays and historical methodologies examining feminist and queer approaches to architectural history
- Edited by S.E. Eisterer
- Published by gta Verlag, 1991
What You'll Discover
- How June Jordan's demand for spaces of open affection and safety grounds a broader architectural and political argument about the built environment
- Methodologies for writing feminist and queer histories of architecture that move beyond representation into planning and spatial structure
- Case studies in refusal and resistance — how communities have contested and reclaimed normative spatial arrangements across various cities
- The intersection of women's health, communal life, and urban design as sites of historical and political analysis
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 280
- Dimensions: 150 x 230 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783856764753
- Publisher: gta Verlag
- Publication Date: 1991
Perfect For: Architectural historians, theorists, and students engaged with gender studies, queer theory, and the politics of space — as well as practitioners and researchers questioning whose needs and identities the built environment has historically served.