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Book Heteropolis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Jencks
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Heteropolis written by Charles Jencks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age dominated by nationalism and ethnic conflict, Charles Jencks argues that these reactionary tendencies can be countered by an equally powerful drive - heterophilia: the love of difference, the desire to seek out new experience and curiosity. All of these are essential to the creation of a new form of city, the heteropolis, epitomized by Los Angeles. With over one hundred ethnic groups, forty different lifestyle clusters, eighty languages spoken in the schools, and extraordinarily different flora and fauna, Los Angeles' diversity has now become one of its main drawing points, and problems. Precariously balanced between civil unrest and the creative enjoyment of difference, it is something towards which other world cities, with their mass-migration and global trade are heading. The hetero-architecture of Los Angeles suggests a way beyond the present impasse between the fundamentalists and the multiculturalists, a third position which diffuses confrontation with creative displacement and inclusive eclecticism. The strange beauty of hetero-architecture embraces variety, its informality allows marginalized groups to feel at home and its unusual metaphors suggest our connection to the natural world. Frank Gehry, Eric Owen Moss, Morphosis, Frank Israel and Charles Moore are its visible leaders, but there is also a vernacular and funk version of the genre as well as the populist versions of Jon Jerde and Disneyland. The philosophy of hetero-architecture accepts difference as a necessity and turns it into a virtue with an informal aesthetic at once polyglot, abstract and representational - that is radically eclectic and inclusive in an understated way. The 'L.A. Style', as it is known, bears affinities with other aesthetics such as the Wabi and Sabi style of the Japanese. With many world cities now facing increasing pluralization, the heteropolis is bound to become a major urban form of the future.

Book Manual of Classification

Download or read book Manual of Classification written by United States. Patent and Trademark Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of replacement pages.

Book Hetero

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sean Griffin
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2009-05-07
  • ISBN : 1438426380
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Hetero written by Sean Griffin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the queer nature of heterosexuality on film.

Book The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

Download or read book The Tragedy of Heterosexuality written by Jane Ward and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple’s therapy in a search for happiness. In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Jane Ward smartly explores what, exactly, is wrong with heterosexuality in the twenty-first century, and what straight people can do to fix it for good. She shows how straight women, and to a lesser extent straight men, have tried to mend a fraught patriarchal system in which intimacy, sexual fulfillment, and mutual respect are expected to coexist alongside enduring forms of inequality, alienation, and violence in straight relationships. Ward also takes an intriguing look at the multi-billion-dollar self-help industry, which markets goods and services to help heterosexual couples without addressing the root of their problems. Ultimately, she encourages straight men and women to take a page out of queer culture, reminding them “about the human capacity to desire, fuck, and show respect at the same time.”

Book The Invention of Heterosexuality

Download or read book The Invention of Heterosexuality written by Jonathan Ned Katz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Heterosexuality,” assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923, the term “heterosexuality” referred to a "morbid sexual passion," and that its current usage emerged to legitimate men and women having sex for pleasure. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud, James Baldwin, Betty Friedan, and Michel Foucault, The Invention of Heterosexuality considers the effects of heterosexuality’s recently forged primacy on both scientific literature and popular culture. “Lively and provocative.”—Carol Tavris, New York Times Book Review “A valuable primer . . . misses no significant twists in sexual politics.”—Gary Indiana, Village Voice Literary Supplement “One of the most important—if not outright subversive—works to emerge from gay and lesbian studies in years.”—Mark Thompson, The Advocate

Book The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

Download or read book The Tragedy of Heterosexuality written by Jane Ward and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality is an exploration of the so-called 'straight culture.'"--

Book The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

Download or read book The Invention of Heterosexual Culture written by Louis-Georges Tin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession. Heterosexuality is celebrated—in film and television, in pop songs and opera, in literature and on greeting cards—and at the same time taken for granted. It is the cultural and sexual norm by default. And yet, as Louis-Georges Tin shows in The Invention of Heterosexual Culture, in premodern Europe heterosexuality was perceived as an alternative culture. The practice of heterosexuality may have been standard, but the symbolic primacy of the heterosexual couple was not. Tin maps the emergence of heterosexual culture in Western Europe and the significant resistance to it from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession. Tin writes that before the phenomenon of "courtly love" in the early twelfth century, the man-woman pairing had not been deemed a subject worthy of more than passing interest. As heterosexuality became a recurrent theme in art and literature, the nobility came to view it as a disruption of the feudal chivalric ethos of virility and male bonding. If feudal lords objected to the "hetero" in heterosexuality and what they saw as the associated dangers of weakness and effeminacy, the church took issue with the “sexuality,” which threatened the Christian ethos of renunciation and divine love. Finally, the medical profession cast heterosexuality as pathology, warning of an epidemic of “lovesickness.” Noting that the discourse of heterosexuality does not belong to heterosexuals alone, Tin offers a groundbreaking history that reasserts the cultural identity of heterosexuality.

Book The American Encyclop  dic Dictionary

Download or read book The American Encyclop dic Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Biological Bulletin

Download or read book The Biological Bulletin written by Frank Rattray Lillie and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 17, 21-105 contain Annual reports of the Marine Biological Laboratory for 1907/08-1952.

Book Journal of the Chemical Society

Download or read book Journal of the Chemical Society written by Chemical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Titles of chemical papers in British and foreign journals" included in Quarterly journal, v. 1-12.

Book Journal of the Chemical Society

Download or read book Journal of the Chemical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London

Download or read book Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London written by Chemical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of Physiology

Download or read book The Journal of Physiology written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trans Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2016-03-22
  • ISBN : 0813576423
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Trans Studies written by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline of Trans Studies explores such challenges in depth, building on the insights of queer and feminist theory to raise provocative questions about the relationships among gender, sexuality, and accepted social norms. Trans Studies is an interdisciplinary essay collection, bringing together leading experts in this burgeoning field and offering insights about how transgender activism and scholarship might transform scholarship and public policy. Taking an intersectional approach, this theoretically sophisticated book deeply grounded in real-world concerns bridges the gaps between activism and academia by offering examples of cutting-edge activism, research, and pedagogy.

Book The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Download or read book The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia written by Robert Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medical Lexicon  A New Dictionary of Medical Science  Containing a Concise Account of the Various Subjects and Terms      and Formulae for     Preparations Etc  Third Edition

Download or read book Medical Lexicon A New Dictionary of Medical Science Containing a Concise Account of the Various Subjects and Terms and Formulae for Preparations Etc Third Edition written by Robley Dunglison and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopaedic Dictionary

Download or read book Encyclopaedic Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: