New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender

ISBN-13: 9780415154895 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 264 str.

Rosa Ainley

Opis

This work seeks to unravel the stereotypical images of gender and space and presents a series of explorations into both lived and imagined spaces. It examines an array of issues, including: Jamaican Ragga music and female performance; feminist anti-violence work; pregnant women's experience of shopping centres; the fear of crime felt by women using urban greenspace; and the implications of technology in gendering identities. The book forges parameters for debates on gender and space, leaving behind the simple focus on women-as-victim in the public arena and remapping considerations of space which look beyond bricks and mortar.

Spis treści

Introduction I COMING FROM THE SAME PLACE? BODIES 1 Sisters in exile: the Lesbian Nation 2 (Re)presenting shopping centres and bodies: questions of pregnancy 3 Involving black and minority women in regeneration initiatives: a case study of Bethnal Green City Challenge 4 UnWomanly acts: struggling over sites of resistance II TAKING ANOTHER LOOK: SPACES 5 Home and away: the feminist remapping of public and private space in Victorian London 6 Through their eyes: young girls look at their Los Angeles neighbourhood 7 Watching the detectors: control and the panopticon 8 Having it all? A question of collaborative housing III OUTSIDE POSSIBILITIES: CULTURAL PLANNING 9 ‘But is it worth taking the risk?’ How women negotiate access to urban woodland: a case study 10 Lesbian space: more than one imagined territory 11 Ghetto girls/urban music: Jamaican ragga music and female performance IV ‘ALTOGETHER ELSEWHERE’: FUTURES 12 Blurring the binaries? High tech in Cambridge 13 Urban culture for virtual bodies: comments on lesbian ‘identity’ and ‘community’ in San Francisco Bay Area cyberspace 14 ‘You ever fuck a mutant?’ Identity, technology and gender in Total Recall 15 Beyond maps and metaphors? Re-thinking the relationships between architecture and gender

O autorze

Rosa Ainley is a writer and photographer, often of space and the spatial.