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Sexuality and space is a field of study within human geography. The phrase encompasses all relationships and interactions between human sexuality, space and place, themes studied within, but not limited to cultural geography, i.e. environmental and architectural psychology, urban sociology, gender studies, queer studies, socio-legal studies, planning, housing studies and criminology. Specific topics which fall into this area are the geographies of LGBT residence, public sex environments, sites of queer resistance, global sexualities, sex tourism,〔(Constructing tourism landscapes – gender, sexuality and space by Pritchard A. & Morgan N. J. Tourism Geographies, Volume 2, Number 2, 1 May 2000 , pp. 115-139(25) )〕 the geographies of prostitution and adult entertainment, use of sexualised locations in the arts,〔(Syllabus Poetics: Sexuality and Space in 17th - 19th Century American Literature, University at Buffalo )〕〔(Space and Modern (Homo)sexuality in Tsai Ming Liang's Films by Lyn Van Swol )〕 and sexual citizenship.〔(Sexuality and Space, Course Syllabus Towson University )〕 The field is now well represented within academic curricula at University level, and is beginning to make its influence felt on secondary level education (in both the US the UK).〔(Sexuality, Space, and City life, a lecture by Michael N. Solem, The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs )〕 ==Origins and development== The work of sociologists has long been concerned with the relationship between urbanization and sexuality, especially in the form of visible clusters or neighborhoods typified by specific sexual moralities or practices. Identification of 'vice areas' and, latterly, 'gay villages', has been a stock in trade of urban sociology since at least the time of the Chicago School. The origins of the term "Sexuality and Space" can be traced back to the early 1990s where usage of the phrase was popularized by two publications. In 1990 what may be described as 'Gay Geography' was presented to a wider audience when an article by Larry Knopp was published in the ''Geographical Magazine'' to some controversy.〔(L. (1990) Social consequences of homosexuality. Geographical Magazine, May 20–25. )〕 In 1992 Beatriz Colomina's ''Sexuality and Space (Princeton Papers on Architecture)'' was released; in which the term is used to elaborate on the symbolism of towers and other structures as Phallic icons. The paper goes on to discuss the sexual psychology of color and other design elements.〔Sexuality & Space (Princeton Papers on Architecture) by Beatriz Colomina, Princeton Architectural Press; 4th ed. edition (July 1, 1996)〕 A review of the papers was released by Elizabeth Wilson in Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 1997.〔(Sexuality and Space Review by Elizabeth Wilson, Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 1997 )〕 Within contemporary geography, studies of sexuality are primarily social and cultural in orientation, though there is also notable engagement with political and economic geography, particular in work on the rise of queer autonomous spaces, economies and alternative (queer) capitalisms. Much work is informed by a politics intended to oppose homophobia and heterosexism, inform sexual health, and promote more inclusve forms of sexual citizenship. Methodologically, much work has been qualitative in orientation, rejecting traditional 'straight' methodologies, yet quantitative methods and GIS have also be utilized to good effect. Work remains predominantly focused on the metropolitan centres of the urban West, but there have been notable studies that focus on rural sexualities and sexualities in the global South. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sexuality and space」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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