Urban Threads

Abstract

Feminism has entered its third wave, somewhat stealthily, unwilling to disappear as the agendas of its first wave (suffrage) and second wave (equal opportunity) appear to many to have been fulfilled. The aims of the third wave are no longer singular, having broadened to address multiple issues in the wake of post-structural critique. For feminist architects issues include the gendered body as a mediator of spatial experience, the intersection of gender with other forms of marginalities including race, class, and poverty, critiques of hierarchies of authorship (through collaboration) and critiques of traditional modes of practice that essentialize site and privilege object-making over process..