Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis (Architext)
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- Synopsis
- Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private spaces. The essays in Embodied Utopias argue that the gendered body is the crux of the hopes and disappointments of modern urban and suburban utopias of the Americas, Europe and Asia. They reassess utopian projects - masculinist, feminist, colonialist, progressive - of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; they survey the dystopian landscapes of the present; and they gesture at the potential for an embodied approach to the urban future, to the changing spaces of cities and virtual landscapes.
- Copyright:
- 2001
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 336 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781134537563
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780203451540, 9780415248136, 9780415248143
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 06/13/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders and Rebecca Zorach
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Art and Architecture
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Amy Bingaman
- Edited by:
- Lise Sanders
- Edited by:
- Rebecca Zorach
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