03752cam a22004338i 4500 23338865 OSt 20241208071108.0 231002s2024 enkab b 001 0 eng 2023032123 9781032389943 (hardback) 9781032391021 (paperback) 9781003348412 (ebook) LBSOR eng rda LBSOR DLC pcc e-uk--- RA967 .C48 2024 725.510941 C48 2024 23/eng/20231020 Cheatle, Emma, author. Lying in the dark room : architectures of British maternity / Emma Cheatle. London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. x, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Routledge research in architecture Includes bibliographical references and index. Ensemble - writing a creative-critical architectural history -- The dark and airless room -- The man midwife enters -- Building hospitals, building bodies: the hospital for lying in -- Commonplaces - species of maternal spaces. "Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, both through a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today. Where conventional architectural histories objectify buildings (in parallel with the objectification of the maternal body), the book-in the mode of Creative Practice Research-presents a creative-critical autotheory of the architecture of lying-in. It uses feminist, subjective modes of thinking, which travel across disciplines, registers and arguments. The book assesses the transformation of maternity spaces-from the female bedchamber of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century marital homes, to the lying-in hospitals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, purpose built by man-midwives, to the late-twentieth century spaces of home and the modern hospital maternity wing- and the parallel shift in maternal practices. The spaces are not treated as mute or neutral backdrops to maternal history, but as a series of vital entangled atmospheres, materials, practices and objects that are produced by, and in turn produce particular social and political conditions, gendered structures and experiences. Moving across spaces, systems, protagonists and their subjectivities, the book shows how hospital design and protocols altered ordinary birth at home and continue to shape maternal spatial experience today. As such, it will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from architectural historians, theoreticians and designers, architecture students, medical humanities historians, English Literature humanities and material studies readers and those interested in creative critical writing"-- Provided by publisher. Health facilities Great Britain Design and construction History. Women's hospitals Great Britain Design and construction History. Architecture Health aspects Great Britain History. Maternal health services Great Britain History. Childbirth Great Britain History. Online version: Cheatle, Emma. Lying in the dark room Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9781003348412 (DLC) 2023032124 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK-EN 0 7345 7345 0 0 ddc 0 0 CENTRAL TUWAIQ 2024-12-08 0 725.510941 C48 2024 1000000025219 2024-12-08 07:11:55 2024-12-08 BK-EN