{"id":785,"date":"2020-07-28T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feministssoa.group.shef.ac.uk\/?p=785"},"modified":"2025-06-15T23:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:20:59","slug":"practicing-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Title:<\/strong> <strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Practicing Difference<\/strong><em style=\"user-select: auto;\">. Analyzing how Female Practices have Conceived Socially Oriented Spaces with Feminist Agenda\u2019s that Value Difference<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Author:<\/strong> Rachael Cowan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Year:<\/strong> 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Abstract:<\/strong> In 1792 the early English feminist philosopher, Mary Wollstonecraft, called for dissent from hegemonic, patriarchal \u2018false systems of education\u2019 dominated by male scholars with the objective of educating the male gender in their own history; while simultaneously subordinating the historical standing of the female identity and that of non-white races (Wollstonecraft, 1792). This prototypal rejection of gendered hierarchies which act as apparatus for the containment of female autonomy, was discredited for an extensive period of time by Wollstonecraft\u2019s contemporaries; it took 106 years for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA, 2018) to even begin to align their views with her progressive liberalism, after the admittance of Ethel Charles&nbsp; to the institution in 1898 as the sole female member of the RIBA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">1898 is a catalytic point for the advancement of women in the field of architecture and the urban practices; an arduous effort began to expose the value the female narrative and experience can have on the production of space and spatial practises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">From the turn of the twentieth century to the contemporary period the visibility of female instigators of&nbsp; spatial progress have been minimally documented. It is incredibly difficult to assert a female voice within a profession where the most privileged social group, the white, heterosexual, middle-class male, has been allowed to dominate practice. Shifting the architectural agenda towards a more open approach to collaborating with notions of difference, is a path that can illuminate many instances of alternative practice; within a variety of contexts, and moments in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Practicing_Difference_Rachael_Cowan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachael Cowan, Special Study Dissertation, 2019. In 1792 the early English feminist philosopher, Mary Wollstonecraft, called for dissent from hegemonic, patriarchal \u2018false systems of education\u2019 dominated by male scholars with the objective of educating the male gender in their own history; while [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[61,50,59,55,57],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-history","tag-inclusivity","tag-intersectionality","tag-practice","tag-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}