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...
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 ...
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...
This collection unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space and presents a series of new explorations into both 'lived' and 'imagined' space...
In What Is She Like? Rosa Ainley looks in depth at how lesbians see themselves and at the questions of identity that have defined and divided the lesbian community. Covering the period from the 1950s, with its repressive influence on sexuality in general, through so-called sexual liberation in the 1960s, to the freedoms and limitations of (lesbian) feminism in the 1970s, she brings exciting and illuminating perspectives to bear on lesbian lives in the 1990s, when lipstick lesbians were the darlings of the mainstream media. Ainley deconstructs the bizarre popular myths and...
In What Is She Like? Rosa Ainley looks in depth at how lesbians see themselves and at the questions of identity that have defined and divide...
