[DOC] A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York by Cindy Amrhein in Arts-Photography

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Combining transgender studies with the rsquo;neomodernistrsquo; architectures of the internationally renowned firm; Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with modernist writers (Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf) whose work anticipates that of transgender studies; this book challenges the implicit rsquo;spatial modelsrsquo; of popular narratives of transgender - interiority; ownership; sovereignty; structure; stability; and domesticity - to advance a novel theorization of transgender as a matter of exteriority; groundlessness; ornamentation; and movement. With case studies spanning the US and UK; Transgender Architectonics examines the ways in which modernist architecture can contribute to our understanding of how it is that humans are able to transform; shedding light on the manner in which architecture; space; and the spatial metaphors of gender can play significant - if often unrealized - potential roles in body and gender transformation. By remedying both the absence of actual architecture in queer theorys discussions of space and also architectural theorys marginal treatment of transgender; this volume constitutes a serious intervention in the field of rsquo;queer spacersquo;. It draws on modernist literature in order to reckon with and rebuild the architectural ideas that already implicitly structure common understandings of the queer and transgender self. As such; it will appeal to scholars with interests in queer theory; the body and transformation; gender and sexuality; modernist writing and architectural theory.