AC Dance Studio: A Gendered Space Analysis

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Lefebvre's three moments of space can be used to illustrate that the AC dance studio is a gendered space. The AC dance studio was designed as a unisex space with no surface features suggesting one gender over another, this demonstrates how it was conceived as a unisex place (Fusco, 2015). However both the perceived and lived moments of the space demonstrate it to be a female gendered space (Fusco, 2015). Since most people’s mental pictures of who uses a dance studio are images of female dancers and that the activities done in this room (dance and aerobic exercise classes) are female activities, this illustrates the perceived space. The fact that most of the people who use the dance studio are female demonstrates that the lived space is actually

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