ABSTRACT
This is a very good book, I should be very clear from the very outset. Francesca Hughes has curated as it were, between boards, a peculiarly successful assemblage of contemporary vantages which, in their varied ways, exercise the profound investigative potential of dwelling on a tropology of what the notion of feminine may be able to effect in the circumstances of architectural practice, architectural theory and architectural history. The authors have been obviously well-briefed and the result is a concerted, arresting, poetically and intellectually creative reappraisal of a number of chestnuts concerning the broadly-thought relations between women and construction. More, there are too a number of unexpected, novel, perhaps previously inarticulable, previously unrecognisable questions issued about the differing morphologies of feminism as ways of thinking architecturally.
