Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism

ISBN-13: 9781138368644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 242 str.

Nicole Kalms

Opis

Hypersexual City examines the occupation of urban space through the mediated representation of women’s hypersexualized bodies. A complex transaction proliferates in the commercial urban space of cities and Hypersexual City seeks to address the cause and consequence of the increasing dominance of gendered representation.

 

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Hypersexual Cities, 2. Critical Contexts for Hypersexual Cities, 3. Hypersexualized Media in Urban Space, 4. Hypersexualized Strip in Urban Space, 5. Hypersexualized Architecture in Urban Space, 6. Conclusion: Provocations of Soft-core Urbanism

O autorze

Nicole Kalms is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Nicole is the founding Director of Monash University’s XYX Laboratory based in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. In this role, Nicole leads a team of interdisciplinary researchers examining the complex interaction of space, gender and communication in cities.