Embodied Utopias

Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis

Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders, Rebecca Zorach

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English

Routledge
25 October 2001

Theory of architecture; Gender studies, gender groups

Series: Architext

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. With contributors from a wide range of fields including architecture and urban planning, art history, media and cultural studies, communications, geography, philosophy, and gender studies, Embodied Utopias makes important contributions to the ongoing dialogue between cultural theory and the history and practice of architecture and urban design. Christa Erickson, Margaret Farrar, Elizabeth Grosz, Sharon Haar, Hazel Hahn, Barbara Hooper, Beatriz Jaguaribe, May Joseph, Thomas Markus, Kelly Quinn, Suzanne Spencer-Wood, Despina Stratigakos, Brent

Edited by: Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders, Rebecca Zorach
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9780415248143
ISBN 10: 0415248140
Series: Architext
Pages: 334
Publication Date: 25 October 2001
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Section 1. Introduction. Section 2. Civilization/Degeneration: Desire and Repulsion in the Modern City. Section 3. At Home in Public. Section 4. Esprit de Corps and Esprit Decor: Domesticity, Community and Creative Autonomy in the Building of Female Public Identity. Section 5. Embodying Urban Design. Section 6. Haunting the City. Section 7. The Time of Architecture. Index.

Rebecca Zorach, Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders