With case studies spanning the US and UK, Transgender Architectonics examines the ways in which modernist architecture can contribute to our understanding of how it is that humans are able to transform, shedding light on the manner in which architecture, space, and the spatial metaphors of gender can play significant - if often unrealized - potential roles in body and gender transformation. By remedying both the absence of actual architecture in queer theory's discussions of space and also architectural theory's marginal treatment of transgender, this volume constitutes a serious intervention in the field of 'queer space'.…mehr
With case studies spanning the US and UK, Transgender Architectonics examines the ways in which modernist architecture can contribute to our understanding of how it is that humans are able to transform, shedding light on the manner in which architecture, space, and the spatial metaphors of gender can play significant - if often unrealized - potential roles in body and gender transformation. By remedying both the absence of actual architecture in queer theory's discussions of space and also architectural theory's marginal treatment of transgender, this volume constitutes a serious intervention in the field of 'queer space'.
Lucas Crawford is Ruth Wynn Woodward Junior Chair in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Foundations and ruins: why don't transgender and architecture get along? How to beat a straight flush: DS+R's Brasserie and the rhetoric of transgender 'plumbing' 'The ladies lavatory': Woolf and the transgender biographical imperative Woolf's Einfühlung: an alternative theory of transgender affect, space, and time 'I'll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I'm queer': Samuel Beckett's spatial aesthetic of name change Against transgender integrity: Beckett's grey matter Epilogue: a transgender poetics of the High Line park
Introduction Foundations and ruins: why don't transgender and architecture get along? How to beat a straight flush: DS+R's Brasserie and the rhetoric of transgender 'plumbing' 'The ladies lavatory': Woolf and the transgender biographical imperative Woolf's Einfühlung: an alternative theory of transgender affect, space, and time 'I'll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I'm queer': Samuel Beckett's spatial aesthetic of name change Against transgender integrity: Beckett's grey matter Epilogue: a transgender poetics of the High Line park
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