New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender

ISBN-13: 9780415154901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 264 str.

Rosa Ainley; Rosa Ailnley

Opis

This collection unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space and presents a series of new explorations into both 'lived' and 'imagined' spaces.
In New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender leading contemporary writers from across an eclectic mix of disciplines, examine an exciting array of issues such as:
* 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
* Implications of technology in gendering identities
This book forges new parameters for debates of 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. Contributors: Aylish Wood, Robyn Longhurst, Ali Grant, Lesley Klein, Affrica Taylor, Inga-Lisa Sangregorio, Jacqueline Leavitt, Tracey Skelton, Nina Wakeford, Jos Boys, Sally R. Munt, Doreen Massey, Jacquie Burgess, Maher Anjum, Lynne Walker.

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.