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Pornotopia : an essay on Playboy's architecture and biopolitics / Beatriz Preciado. by Preciado, Paul B. Zone Books, 2014. Call #: 051 P923p Subjects Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)   Architecture and society.   Masculinity.   Bachelors. ISBN:  9781935408482 (hc.) Description:  303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes:  Translation of: Pornotopia: Arquitectura y sexualidad en "Playboy" durante la guerra fría. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-290) and index. Contents:  Playboy architecture : performing masculinity -- Manifesto for an indoor man : the awakening of the Playboy's domestic consciousness -- Unfolding domesticity : the postdomestic interior and the invention of the "girl next door" -- Striptease : undressing domesticity -- The male electronic boudoir : the urban bachelor apartment -- The Playboy mansion : American oøkema -- The invention of the pharmacopornographic bed -- Playboy spatial products : the Playboy Club and the Playboy archipelago as pornscape. Summary:  Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy became not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America, but also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle that took place in a series of utopian multimedia spaces, from the fictional Playboy's Penthouse of 1956 to the Playboy Mansion of 1959 and the Playboy Clubs of the 1960s. At the same time, the invention of the contraceptive pill offered access to a biochemical technique able to separate (hetero)sexuality and reproduction, troubling the traditional relationships between gender, sexuality, power, and space. Beatriz Preciado examines popular culture and pornographic spaces tracing the strategic relationships among architecture, gender, and sexuality through popular sites related to the production and consumption of pornography: design objects, bachelor pads, and multimedia rotating beds. Largely relegated to the margins of traditional histories of architecture, these sites are not mere spaces but a series of overlapping systems of representation. They are understood here not as inherently or naturally sexual, nor as perverted or queer, but rather as biopolitical techniques for governing sexual reproduction and the production of gender in modernity. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 051 P923p Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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