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Gender. Hysteria. Architecture. | What Might Care Look Like If It Were Not Afraid of Women? 4

Gender. Hysteria. Architecture. | What Might Care Look Like If It Were Not Afraid of Women?

What kinds of spaces exist where women can breathe without being watched? If hysteria no longer exists as a diagnosis, why does its architecture remain? Aditi A., through her research study as a part of the CEPT Writing Architecture course, in the third and last chapter of this series follows the spatial logics that developed to manage hysteria, which continue in the contemporary environments of care safety, and everyday life. If the diagnosis has been discredited, what explains the persistence of its walls?

Gender. Hysteria. Architecture. | What Might Care Look Like If It Were Not Afraid of Women? 4

Gender. Hysteria. Architecture. | What Might Care Look Like If It Were Not Afraid of Women?

What kinds of spaces exist where women can breathe without being watched? If hysteria no longer exists as a diagnosis, why does its architecture remain? Aditi A., through her research study as a part of the CEPT Writing Architecture course, in the third and last chapter of this series follows the spatial logics that developed to manage hysteria, which continue in the contemporary environments of care safety, and everyday life. If the diagnosis has been discredited, what explains the persistence of its walls?

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Gender. Hysteria. Architecture.

Aditi A.’s research work (as a part of the CEPT Writing Architecture course) traces a genealogy of care that quietly mutated into confinement. It begins with a refusal to treat “female hysteria” as merely a mistaken medical diagnosis of the nineteenth century. Instead, it approaches hysteria as the name given to a much older spatial logic—one that had already learned how to isolate, manage, discipline, and erase women long before psychiatry offered language to explain it.

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