THREE FEMINIST ANALYSES OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

This paper addresses the diversity of academic feminist analyses of the relations between sex/gender/ bodies and space/ place/ design. This is approached trough categorizing feminist approaches into three main groupings, that have been named: ‘liberal humanist feminist’; 'critical theory feminist' and 'postmodern feminist'. The paper outlines the main elements which constitute these three categories, and illustrates each one with examples of analysis, firstly, of certain issues of design and secondly, of problems that women encounter in the profession of architecture.