GGRB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Urban Area, Urban Design, Sex Segregation
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Urban space is always gendered and sexualized: urban spaces are often encoded with gendered and sexualized norms that are so commonplace we don"t even recognize them; For example take a classroom: it operates under a gendered and sexualized urban space; take the fact that you wake up in the morning and come to class wearing pants and a shirt. Spaces of sex work: certain public streets, brothels, escorting spaces, lap dancing/strip clubs, porn shoots, the home. All urban spaces are gendered: women are often associated with the home", i. e. with private space, while men have traditionally been associated with the city", with public" space the workplace, the bar, the city street. Gendered urban design: north american cities (and many other cities worldwide) have been designed using assumption about a sexual division of labour, how are these traditional ways of ordering the city being challenged by urban residents such as:
