Book ID: CBB000651067

Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis (2002)

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Bingaman, Amy (Editor)
Sanders, Lise (Editor)
Zorach, Rebecca (Editor)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xviii + 316 pp.; ill.; map; bibl.; index
Language: English

; $Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders, and Rebecca Zorach$, Embodied utopia : introduction; $Thomas A. Markus$, Is there a built form for non-patriarchal utopias?; $Margaret E. Farrar$, Making the city beautiful : aesthetic reform and the (dis)placement of bodies; $Barbara Hooper$, Urban space, modernity, and masculinist desire : the utopian longings of Le Corbusier; $Hazel Hahn$, Dystopia in utopia : exoticism and degeneration in Indochina, 1890-1940; $Sharon Haar$, At home in public : the Hull House settlement and the study of the city; $Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood$, Utopian visions and architectural designs of turn-of-the-century social settlements; $Despina Stratigakos$, A women's Berlin : how female patrons and architects in imperial Germany re-gendered the city; $Kelly Quinn$, Endeavours and expectations : housing Washington's women; $Brent Stringfellow$, Personal city : Tysons Corner and the question of identity; $Andrew Wood$, Re-reading Disney's celebration : gendered topography in a heterotopian pleasure garden; $Brian P. McGrath$, Bangkok simultopia; $Christa Erickson$, Networked interventions : debugging the electronic frontier; $May Joseph$, Frugality and the city : Hanoi Palimpsest; $Elizabeth Wilson$, Against utopia : the romance of indeterminate spaces; $Elizabeth Grosz.; $$, The time of architecture

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Description Contents (from OCLC): Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders, and Rebecca Zorach, “Embodied Utopia: Introduction”; Thomas A. Markus, “Is There a Built Form for Non-Patriarchal Utopias?”; Margaret E. Farrar, “Making the City Beautiful: Aesthetic Reform and the (Dis)placement of Bodies”; Barbara Hooper, “Urban Space, Modernity, and Masculinist Desire: The Utopian Longings of Le Corbusier”; Hazel Hahn, “Dystopia in Utopia: Exoticism and Degeneration in Indochina, 1890-1940”; Sharon Haar, “At Home in Public: The Hull House Settlement and the Study of the City”; Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, “Utopian Visions and Architectural Designs of Turn-of-the-Century Social Settlements”; Despina Stratigakos, “A Women's Berlin: How Female Patrons and Architects in Imperial Germany Re-gendered the City”; Kelly Quinn, “Endeavours and Expectations: Housing Washington's Women”; Brent Stringfellow, “Personal City: Tysons Corner and the Question of Identity”; Andrew Wood, “Re-reading Disney's Celebration: Gendered Topography in a Heterotopian Pleasure Garden”; Brian P. McGrath, “Bangkok Simultopia”; Christa Erickson, “Networked Interventions: Debugging the Electronic Frontier”; May Joseph, “Frugality and the City: Hanoi Palimpsest”; Elizabeth Wilson, “Against Utopia: The Romance of Indeterminate Spaces”; Elizabeth Grosz, “The Time of Architecture.”


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