RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Feminist Interventions in the Histories of Landscape Architecture
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 107
OP 112
DO 10.3368/lj.13.2.107
VO 13
IS 2
A1 Heath Massey Schenker
YR 1994
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/13/2/107.abstract
AB Building upon work by feminist art historians, this paper offers a critique of a classic text of modernist landscape architecture history, Norman T. Newton's Design on the Land, demonstrating how attempts to write women into this paradigm for landscape architecture history work to marginalize women's contributions. As an alternative, the author examines a study of l9th century Birmingham, England, by social and feminist historians Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall to illustrate how a feminist perspective combined with social history can act as a catalyst to produce more rigorous critical discourse within the field of landscape architecture history.