This thesis examines how architectural space shaped gendered mobility, visibility, and social recognition in three ancient Mediterranean contexts: Bronze Age Minoan Crete, Mycenaean palatial architecture, and Classical Athens. Rather than treating rooms as inherently male or female, it reads built space through the combined evidence of spatial configuration, visual organization, and archaeological material and textual evidence. The first part reassesses Minoan palatial and residential spaces, especially the so-called “Queen’s Megaron” (a large rectangular hall), the Minoan Hall, polythyron (a multi-pier-and-door partition system), and lustral basins. These spaces do not prove the existence of fixed women’s quarters or female dominance. They do, however, suggest that depth, permeability, light, and adjustable thresholds (a boundary or transition point between spaces, such as a doorway, stair, partition, or entrance) could support forms of female-associated ritual activity and social agency.