ABSTRACT
Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private spaces. The essays in Embodied Utopias argue that the gendered body is the crux of the hopes and disappointments of modern urban and suburban utopias of the Americas, Europe and Asia. They reassess utopian projects - masculinist, feminist, colonialist, progressive - of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; they survey the dystopian landscapes of the present; and they gesture at the potential for an embodied approach to the urban future, to the changing spaces of cities and virtual landscapes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|20 pages
Part I
part 2|59 pages
Civilization/Degeneration
chapter 3|24 pages
Urban Space, Modernity, and Masculinist Desire
part 3|39 pages
At Home in Public
part 4|33 pages
Esprit de Corps and Esprit Décor: Domesticity, Community, and Creative Autonomy in the Building of Female Public Identity
chapter 7|17 pages
A Women's Berlin
part 5|50 pages
Embodying Urban Design
chapter 10|16 pages
Re-Reading Disney's Celebration
part 6|43 pages
Haunting the City
part 7|16 pages
Part VII