This 6,000-word essay was an invited contribution to a special issue of the refereed Journal of International Women’s Studies on gender and space. It is primarily concerned with questions of methodology and disciplinarity, and references archival work on female public toilets that I have published elsewhere. It critiques the direction of recent feminist architectural criticism that has emerged in the wake of the research of Beatriz Colomina, specifically its focus on a very limited architectural canon and failure to embrace less exalted and more ordinary spaces. Considering the writings of James Clifford, Hal Foster, Janet Wolff, Giuliana Bruno and others, the research explores what feminist engagements with space might still learn from interdisciplinary studies. The paper questions not only the types of spaces and buildings that constitute feminists’ main objects of study in architectural history but also forms of evidence and methods that are typically used in their research. Inspired by the work of Janet Wolff, Irit Rogoff and Jane Rendell, I begin with an exploration of autobiographical writing and anecdote, interspersed with critical reflections, as a feminist technique for exposing institutional and disciplinary pressures in academic work.