ˆ A Reading on the Spatial Representations of Urban Center in Seoul from Cultural Perspective of Gender : Flânerie Seeing with Speculum* Suan Lee** Benjamin flânerie Irigaray speculum Abstract This paper attempts to focus the ways in which Seoul as an urban space can be read and interpreted from gender perspective, assuming Seoul as a cultural text which represents modernity and post-modernity. Drawing on discussions of urban sociology and human geography which have analyzed the relationship between material spaces and social subjects, this paper explores the gendered segregation and representations of space in Seoul which has been constructed through the process of modernization. The framework of spatial interpretation of Seoul, concentrating on imageablity and legibility, consists of three dimensions; gendered division of labour and sphere, dichotomy of representations along with femininity and masculinity, and the ways of interlocking between modernity and postmodernity. In this paper, flânerie, Benjamin s method of interpretation of urban culture and the way of seeing with speculum of Irigaray are adopted as metaphoric methodologies. It is an attempt to develop a new methodology to analyze and interpret urban space from gender-cultural perspective. : center in Seoul, spatial representation, urban space, flâneur, speculum, feminist cultural studies 2007 (KRF-2007-361-AL0015) (Assistant Professor, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, Ewha Womans University), suan@ewha.ac.kr 282
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