Space, Place and Gendered Identities: Feminist History and the Spatial Turn

ISBN-13: 9781138056954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 158 str.

Kathryne Beebe; Angela Davis

Opis

Through an analysis of the relationship between gendered and political meanings of space, the essays in this volume explore how multiple understandings of space and place are fashioned in different historical contexts. It was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Space, Place and Gendered Identities: feminist history and the spatial turn Kathryne Beebe, Angela Davis and Kathryn Gleadle  2. Sexuality in Heterotopia: time, space and love between women in the historic house Alison Oram  3. Making a Scene: struggles over lesbian place-making in anglophone Canada, 1964–1984 Liz Millward  4. Place and Power in Irish Farms at the End of the Nineteenth Century Katie Barclay  5 Making Space: English women, letter-writing, and the life of the mind, c.1650–1750 Leonie Hannan  6. Homes Both Sides of the Microphone: the wireless and domestic space in inter-war Britain Maggie Andrews  7. Changing Spaces: art, politics, and identity in the home studios of the Suffrage Atelier Tara Morton  8. ‘Unduly conscious of her sex’: priesthood, female bodies, and sacred space in the Church of England Timothy Willem Jones  9. ‘To console, to nurse, to prepare for eternity’: the Catholic sickroom in late nineteenth-century England Carmen M. Mangion, Birkbeck

O autorze

Kathryne Beebe is Assistant Professor of Medieval History and Digital Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington, USA. Her research interests include medieval pilgrimage, the history of the book, women's history and the cultural history of spirituality.

Angela Davis is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Warwick, UK. Her current research project is a comparative study of Jewish motherhood in England and Israel in the second half of the twentieth century.