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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Other work on the subject includes: Beatriz Colomina, ed., Sexuality and Space (New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1992) – a mainly historical take on gender and space through a specific engagement with psychoanalytic theory; Katerina Ruedi et al., eds, Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary (London, Black Dog Publishing, 1996) – on architectural theory around the issue of practice; Debra L. Coleman, Elizabeth Ann Danze, Carol Jane Henderson, eds, Architecture and Feminism (New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996) – on architectural theory; Jane Rendell, Barbara Penner and Iain Borden, eds, Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (London, Routledge, 2000) – provides an interdisciplinary introduction and overview of key theoretical texts; Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders and Rebecca Zorach, eds, Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis (London, Routledge, 2002) – an American take on the gendered omissions of utopias; Louise Durning and Richard Wrigley, eds, Gender and Architecture (Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 2000) – on architectural history and gender. This is by no means an exhaustive list but just a small selection of texts on the subject. 2. Donna Haraway, ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective’, Feminist Studies, 14(3) (Autumn, 1988), pp. 575–599. 3. The term ‘line of flight’ is borrowed from: Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trs., Brian Massumi (Minneapolis, The University of Minnesota Press, 1987). 4. Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (New York, Columbia University Press, 1994).