Evolution Of Sexuality In The 19th Century

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The Evolution of Sexuality
Introduction
Sexuality is a part of every human being’s natural make-up, and in recent years there has been a great deal of research and a corresponding increase in scientific understanding of what sexuality is, how it has been perceived in history contrasted to the 21 st century, and if there has been a progression through architecture and designs to be more gender neutral. The topic presented is whether or not sexuality’s history has progressed towards a more unified and less oppressive standpoint and had architecture and various designs kept up with the changes in accommodation and become less oppressive regarding modern designing. There has been a myriad of social movements throughout the last few decades, and …show more content…

It provides a link between scholarly articles that have explored how dissidents of sexuality used their position in society to fight gender inequality and discrimination in the society as well as promote the ideals of feminism. Through times, women have been significant figures in society and have been at the forefront of unsanctioned wars in challenging gender stereotypes, such as outmoded norms that discriminated against women in places of work, and obsolete edicts that merely define them by their sexuality. Women have been in the struggle to define their role and “place” in their societies (Bell, 1982). Existing literature by other authors will be deployed to illustrate how dissident sexuality and figures in design have challenged such …show more content…

During this time, numerous non-heterosexual women seemed to have been happy to identify themselves as modern artists or designers as a participation model in cultural and artistic modernity. From her story explaining how Eileen Gray designed an aesthetic house that garnered her sexually inclined criticism from Le Corbusier (Rault, 2010), she helps us question how it was even possible for a house to communicate gayness at a time when same-sex desires were not sure ways for indicating an identity. These special constraints give a glimpse into the revolution of what is meant to be a homosexual and the kind of experience such women went through to bear the acceptance that they were sexually different at the time when holding such a standpoint was queer. Eventually much has been done to change the oppression and perception of various sexualities regarding designs and infrastructure. By using the readings and giving examples from Le Corbusier, I will present arguments that prove that “standardization is imposed by the law of selection and is an economic and social necessity”( Bell, 1982) - by gaining more standard codes to buildings or designs directed to influence or categorize genders or

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