Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900

Architecture in the Family Way explores the relationship between domestic architecture, health reform, and feminism in late nineteenth-century England. Annmarie Adams examines the changing perceptions about the English middle-class house from 1870 to 1900, highlighting how attitudes toward health, women, home life, and even politics were played out in architecture.

Adams argues that the many significant changes seen in this period were due not to architects' efforts but to the work of femini...