In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the discipline. The essays examine the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the role of women in the narratives and writing of architectural history.

1. Assembling the Monstrous Regiment Part 1 (Auto)Biographies 2. Refracting Feminine Subjectivities Through Space, Time, and Architectural History 3. Maude & Me 4. Looking Back: Small Spaces as Countermapping Architectural History Part 2 Spatial Position and Temporality 5. Against the Grain: Women Architects Rereading and Reimagining the Archive and Monograph 6. In Plain Sight: Women In and Around the Archive 7. Making the Zaha Hadid Foundation Part 3 Social and Cultural Flows 8. Feminist Architectural History 2.0 9. Expanding Agency: Ethel Power, House Beautiful, and the Writing of the History of American Architecture Part 4 Spatial Experience 10. Beyond the Walls: Traversing the Boundaries of Architectural History 11. Looking Softly at Architectural History: Eroding the Hegemony of Formalism Afterword 12. Afterword

Dana Arnold is Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. Her work focuses on histories and historiographies of architecture and urbanism in relation to social and cultural theory. She is the author of The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society (1998); Re¿presenting the Metropolis (2000); Reading Architectural History (2002); Rural Urbanism: London Landscapes in the Early Nineteenth Century (2006); The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680-1820 (2013); and Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past (2020). Her most recent book British Architecture: A very short introduction, was published in 2024.