Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City*
Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City*
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性别与空间：城市中的女同性恋者和男同性恋者*
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2427.1992.tb00463.x
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发表时间：
1992
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Johanna Brenner
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文献类型：
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作者：
S. Adler;Johanna Brenner
在过去的二十年里，同性恋社区已经成为城市景观中熟悉的一部分。尽管这些地区可能包括女同性恋，但男同性恋主导着他们独特的亚文化、他们的生意和他们的住宅、他们的街头生活和他们的政治活动。在《城市与草根》一书中，作者曼努埃尔·卡斯特尔认为，男同性恋者在创建明显同性恋的城市社区中的主导地位反映了深刻的性别差异。他说，在与空间的关系中，男女同性恋首先要表现得像男人和女人。本文的主要目的是澄清城市社区女同性恋者空间集中的存在和意义的模糊性。为此，本文试图在对美国城市女同性恋社区的研究中尽可能地复制卡斯特的分析方法。虽然该论文拒绝了卡斯特对男女同性恋之间性别差异的描述，但男同性恋和女同性恋在某些重要维度上可能与城市空间和城市政治有不同的关系。这些差异确实反映了女同性恋者是女性的事实。
In the past two decades gay neighborhoods have become familiar parts of the urban landscape. Although these areas may include lesbians, gay men dominate their distinct subcultures, their businesses and their residences, their street life and their political activities. In the book" The City and the Grassroots," author Manuel Castells argues that the predominance of gay men in the creation of distinctly homosexual urban neighborhoods reflects a profound gender difference. In relationship to space, gay men and lesbians, he says, behave first and foremost as men and women. The main purpose of the paper is to clarify the ambiguities surrounding the existence and significance of spatial concentration among lesbians in urban communities. In order to do so, the paper attempts to replicate Castells' method of analysis as closely as possible in a study of lesbian community in the US city. While the paper rejects Castells' characterization of the gender differences between gay men and lesbians, there are important dimensions along which gay men and lesbians may relate differently to urban space and urban politics. These differences do reflect the fact that lesbians are women.