The Architecture of Motherhood. Retrieving and Creating our Spaces. DILEMATA Año, 7, 147–155.

Angela Elisabeth Müller

Abstract:
Birth as a creative and complex act is, even today, undervalued, somehow hidden and subject to efficiency or performance criteria. Maternity wards are still being designed based on the same obsolete guidelines. Our aim is that neither feminist theories nor gender issues get excluded at maternity wards. Our work analyses the way attention is given during birth, as well as how pregnant and birthing women behave and relate to physical spaces. Birth rooms at maternity wards are still too often conceived as a reflection of our society: submissive spaces in a patriarchal system.
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Müller, A. E., & Parra Casado, M. (2015). La arquitectura de la maternidad. Recuperar y crear nuestros espacios. The Architecture of Motherhood. Retrieving and Creating our Spaces. DILEMATA Año, 7, 147–155.
https://www.dilemata.net/revista/index.php/dilemata/article/view/377

Parra Casado, M., & Muller, A. E. (2020). The Architecture of Motherhood. The Practising Midwife, 23(02), 40–41. https://doi.org/10.55975/BLBG2833

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