Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity. Architects, artists, and theorists investigate how sexuality is constituted through the organization of materials, objects, and human subjects in actual space. This collection of essays and visual projects critically analyzes the spaces that we habitually take for granted but that quietly participates in the manufacturing of "maleness." Employing a variety of critical perspectives (feminism, "queer theory," deconstruction, and psychoanalysis), Stud's contributors reveal how masculinity, always an unstable construct, is coded in our environment. Stud also addresses the relationship between architecture and gay male sexuality, illustrating the resourceful ways that gay men have appropriated and reordered everyday public domains, from streets to sex clubs, in the formation of gay social space.
| ISBN: | 9780367445379 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 2023 |
| Author: | Joel Sanders |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 312 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Revivals |
| Genres: |
Gender studies: men and boys Feminism and feminist theory Cultural studies: dress and society Social and cultural anthropology Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Conservation of buildings and building materials LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Psychotherapy Sociology Child, developmental and lifespan psychology Psychology of gender Social, group or collective psychology |