“When I say ‘gender’ you think ‘women’. And it is true that most gender history is written from a woman-centred perspective, but much research covers both men and women and importantly the relationships between the two.”

—  Dana Arnold

Source: Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 6 : Reading architectural herstories : The discourses of gender

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