Arquitectura, género y control social

This book tries to register the debates (motivated by cultural studies) that question the hegemonic sense of urban space and the configuration of the cities, understood these as an accumulation of uses, perceptions, symbolic systems, elements of representation…, and which relevance modifies in time, culture, social groups, sexual relations or gender behaviour.

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The complex relations between buildings and bodies, structures and genders, surroundings and relations, have characterized the attempts to undermine the conventions of the traditional architecture in these last decades. Nevertheless, the contemporary city, more and more, establishes attitudes and ways of performance with which organizes and structures the control of desires of the body by two means: one, the creation of “docile spaces” easy to watch and to control; and two, trying to obtain “absent bodies” or denied so that pleasure and desires disappear of public spaces.

Authors: Jose Miguel G. CORTES, Vincente GUALLART

Language: English

Pages: 207

Size: 10×14 cm

Published by: Actar, IaaC (2006, printed and bound in the European Union)

ISBN: 978-84-609-9110-6