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Misleading Epiphenomena (Paperback)
Steve Putton, Steve Swindells, Barbara Penner; Edited by Ben Hillwood - Harris, Sharon Kivland
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This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a seminal point in gender and architecture, both summarizing core debates and pointing toward new directions and discussions for the future. eBook available with sample pages: 0203449126
This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This collection marks a seminal point in gender and architecture, both summarizing core debates and pointing toward new directions and discussions for the future.
Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the
meanings and experiences of home through the framework of
sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of sexuality, gender and
domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is
constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality and
gender. Considering identity issues such as age, class, ethnicity
and gender, the authors problematize intimacy and question
conventional ways of thinking about allegedly 'private' home space.
Comprehensive introductions to each of the book's three sections -
on Intimacy and Home, Queering Home, Beyond Home - provide a
coherent overview of the existing literature as well as additional
historical and cultural context. Fourteen chapters present
ground-breaking research and insights into sexuality, gender and
home across culture, time and space. Written by academics from a
range of subject disciplines, chapters are based on research
covering countries including Australia, France, Sweden, the UK, the
USA, Guyana, Israel, and Singapore.This highly original text is the
ideal starting point for anyone wishing to get to grips with the
emerging field of sexuality, gender and home and will particularly
appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, architecture,
gender studies, sociology, and human geography.
Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the
meanings and experiences of home through the framework of
sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of sexuality, gender and
domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is
constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality and
gender. Considering identity issues such as age, class, ethnicity
and gender, the authors problematize intimacy and question
conventional ways of thinking about allegedly 'private' home space.
Comprehensive introductions to each of the book's three sections -
on Intimacy and Home, Queering Home, Beyond Home - provide a
coherent overview of the existing literature as well as additional
historical and cultural context. Fourteen chapters present
ground-breaking research and insights into sexuality, gender and
home across culture, time and space. Written by academics from a
range of subject disciplines, chapters are based on research
covering countries including Australia, France, Sweden, the UK, the
USA, Guyana, Israel, and Singapore.This highly original text is the
ideal starting point for anyone wishing to get to grips with the
emerging field of sexuality, gender and home and will particularly
appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, architecture,
gender studies, sociology, and human geography.
Blending architecture, design, and technology, a visual tour
through futures past via the objects we have replaced, left behind,
and forgotten. So-called extinct objects are those that were
imagined but were never in use, or that existed but are now
unused-superseded, unfashionable, or simply forgotten. Extinct
gathers together an exceptional range of artists, curators,
architects, critics, and academics, including Hal Foster, Barry
Bergdoll, Deyan Sudjic, Tacita Dean, Emily Orr, Richard Wentworth,
and many more. In eighty-five essays, contributors nominate
"extinct" objects and address them in a series of short, vivid,
sometimes personal accounts, speaking not only of obsolete
technologies, but of other ways of thinking, making, and
interacting with the world. Extinct is filled with curious,
half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future that never came
to pass. It is also a visual treat, full of interest and delight.
The story of the modern bathroom is both one of grand feats of
engineering and mass production, and of the unremarkable, mundane
and repressed. The most private place in the home, the bathroom is
where we perform the most intimate of our daily routines; it is
also a space where we take refuge from the outside world. Yet the
moment we turn on a tap or flush the toilet, the smallest room is
hooked up to the largest of all infrastructural systems: a vast and
complex network of pipes, pumps and treatment plants. Bathroom
charts the evolution of the bathroom and the habits and lifestyles
to which it gave rise. The book considers how and why the bathroom
emerged and how it became an international symbol of key modern
values - of cleanliness, order and progress. It explores how the
modern bathroom, its technologies and its customs have been
exported globally through colonialism, the media, fashion, world
expositions and tourism, and the tensions this process has caused.
It also discusses more user-friendly and low-tech alternatives,
which are set to become ever more relevant in our environmentally
conscious age. Abundantly illustrated, Bathroom examines examples
from history and from across the globe. From squats to hi-tech
bidet toilets, and from cast-iron bathtubs to monsoon showers,
Bathroom is an original and eye-opening study of this significant
but often overlooked space.
Talking about toilets--in all their material, social, symbolic and
discursive complexity
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