Combining transgender studies with the 'neomodernist' architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with modernist writers (Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf) whose work anticipates that of transgender studies, this book challenges the implicit 'spatial models' of popular narratives of transgender - interiority, ownership, sovereignty, structure, stability, and domesticity - to advance a novel theorization of transgender as a matter of exteriority, groundlessness, ornamentation, and movement. 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'. It draws on modernist literature in order to reckon with and rebuild the architectural ideas that already implicitly structure common understandings of the queer and transgender self. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in queer theory, the body and transformation, gender and sexuality, modernist writing and architectural theory.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9781472450975
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217406013
Product Key Features
Author
Lucas Crawford
Publication Name
Transgender Architectonics: the Shape of Change in Modernist Space
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Zoology
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
499g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Lucas Crawford
Series Title
Gender, Bodies and Transformation
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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