Gender and the Landscape

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The second group of posters addresses the associations between gender and sexuality and their impact on the landscape.

6 and 7 visibly remind the viewer of marginalized identities within landscapes and landscape architecture. The strong presence of gay males in design emerges forcibly in 6 while 7 celebrates the critical and overlooked presence of women, namely Marian Coffin, in landscape architectural history and the development of the profession.

8 and 9 suggest the sexism inherent in the formation of landscapes by patriarchally-dominated institutions of power and authority intent on control and exploitation of the land and of people, namely women. 9 attacks a specific "tool of the patriarchy," Landscape Architecture Magazine, the mouthpiece of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).