ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a variety of people whose work intersects with one or more of the following topics: space and the body, public private dichotomies, the home and architecture. One of the critiques Dovey makes builds upon work by Thomas Markus arguing that architecture has traded more systemic power in planning and programming of spaces for aesthetics and form making. Although architecture has historically been associated with creating spatial representations of power, it does have the latent ability to work against the hegemony. One aspect of the feminist history that most interests are the intersection of activism with spatial politics and design. Interested in challenging the boundary between public and private, Nancy Duncan own research of marginalized groups including abused women and sexual minorities works to reveal how these groups counter this spatial division. Most women exhibit spatial confidence as well as spatial restriction and fear are influenced by spatial, temporal and social contexts.
