Sexuality & Space
Title | Sexuality & Space PDF eBook |
Author | Beatriz Colomina |
Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781878271082 |
"Both timely and well worth the time."-Thomas Keenan, Newsline. aia Award Winner & Oculus Bestseller.
Finding the Movement
Title | Finding the Movement PDF eBook |
Author | Finn Enke |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2007-11-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822390388 |
In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women’s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and class created a massive groundswell of feminist activism by directly intervening in the urban landscape. They secured illicit meeting spaces and gained access to public athletic fields. They fought to open bars to women and abolish gendered dress codes and prohibitions against lesbian congregation. They created alternative spaces, such as coffeehouses, where women could socialize and organize. They opened women-oriented bookstores, restaurants, cafes, and clubs, and they took it upon themselves to establish women’s shelters, health clinics, and credit unions in order to support women’s bodily autonomy. By considering the development of feminism through an analysis of public space, Enke expands and revises the historiography of second-wave feminism. She suggests that the movement was so widespread because it was built by people who did not identify themselves as feminists as well as by those who did. Her focus on claims to public space helps to explain why sexuality, lesbianism, and gender expression were so central to feminist activism. Her spatial analysis also sheds light on hierarchies within the movement. As women turned commercial, civic, and institutional spaces into sites of activism, they produced, as well as resisted, exclusionary dynamics.
Bisexual Spaces
Title | Bisexual Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Hemmings |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 131779513X |
A largely unexplored area, this is an innovative and original examination of bisexual spaces as places that are defined by both geographical boundaries and cultural significance. Hemmings applies the ideas of queer theory as well as social and cultural geography in her fascinating investigation into the spaces and places of bisexual life. Specifically focusing on Northhampton, MA and San Francisco, she draws on interviews with community members and the town histories showing how and why they have developed into safe places for the gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities. By mapping out a space of bisexuality, Bisexual Spaces provides a new and provocative understanding of the concept.
Queer Space
Title | Queer Space PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Betsky |
Publisher | William Morrow |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 1997-03-19 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780688143015 |
In Building Sex, architecture critic and curator Aaron Betsky looked at how traditional gender roles have influenced architecture. In Queer Space, he examines how same-sex desire is creating an entirely new architecture. Gay men and women are in the forefront of architectural innovation, reclaiming abandoned neighborhoods, redefining urban spaces, and creating liberating interiors out of hostile environments. Queer spaces have arisen out of the experiences of homosexuals in a straight culture. Often forced to hide their true nature, gay men and women have turned inward, playing with the norms of interior space and creating environments of stagecraft and celebration where they can define themselves with out fear. Their experiments point the way to an architecture that can free us all from the imprisoning structures and spaces of the modern city.
Spaces Between Us
Title | Spaces Between Us PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Lauria Morgensen |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2011-11-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1452932727 |
Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States
Public Sex/gay Space
Title | Public Sex/gay Space PDF eBook |
Author | William Leap |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Homosexuality |
ISBN | 9780231106917 |
Twelve essays provide a nuanced portrait of why public sexual activity is such an integral part of gay culture. Contributors explore issues such as visibility and secrecy, as well as economic status and social class, and interrogate the historical trajectories through which certain locations come to be favored sites for sexual encounters.
Space, Place, and Sex
Title | Space, Place, and Sex PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda Johnston |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780742555129 |
This accessible and engaging book explores the ways that "space, place, and sex" are inextricably linked from the micro to the macro level, from the individual body to the globe. Drawing on queer, feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst highlight the complex nature of sex and sexuality and how they are connected to both virtual and physical spaces and places. Their aim is to enrich our understanding of sexual identities and practices--whether they be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, asexual, queer, or heterosexual. They show that bodies are defined and connected through media such as television, movies, ads, and the Internet, as well as through "real" places such as homes, churches, sports arenas, city streets, beaches, and wilderness. Drawing on a diverse array of historical and contemporary examples, the authors argue convincingly that sexual politics permeate all places and spaces at every level of geographical scale. Thus, they illustrate, sexuality affects the way people live in and interact with space and place, as space and place in turn affect people's sexuality.