{"product_id":"lying-in-the-dark-room-9781032389943","title":"Lying in the Dark Room","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity\u003c\/i\u003e returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere conventional architectural histories objectify buildings (in parallel with the objectification of the maternal body), the bookâin the mode of creative practice researchâpresents a creative-critical \u003cem\u003eautotheory\u003c\/em\u003e of the architecture of lying-in. It uses feminist, subjective modes of thinking that travel across disciplines, registers and arguments. The book assesses the transformation of maternity spacesâfrom the female bedchamber of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century marital homes, to the lying-in hospitals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries purposely built by man-midwives, to the late twentieth-century spaces of home and the modern hospital maternity wingâand the parallel shifts in maternal practices. The spac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Dark and Airless Room 2. The Man-Midwife Enters 3. Building Hospitals, Building Bodies: The Hospital for Lying-In 4. Commonplaces—Species of Maternal Spaces\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019024728407,"sku":"9781032389943","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032389943.jpg?v=1750779073","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lying-in-the-dark-room-9781032389943","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}