BodySpace brings together some of the best known geographers writing on gender and sexuality today. Together they explore the role of space and place in the performance of gender and sexuality.
The book takes a broad perspective on feminism as a theoretical critique, and aims to ground - and destabilize - notions of citizenship, work, violence, "race" and disability in their geographical contexts.
The book explores the idea of knowledge as embodied, engendered and embedded in place and space. Gender and sexuality are explored - and destabilized - through the methodological...

This volume brings together some of the best known geographers writing on gender and sexuality today. Together they explore the role of space and place in the performance of gender and sexuality. The book takes a broad perspective on feminism as a theoretical critique, and aims to ground - and destabilize - notions of citizenship, work, violence, race and disability in their geographical contexts. The book explores the idea of knowledge as embodied, engendered and embedded in place and space. Gender and sexuality are explored - and destabilized - through the methodological and conceptual...

How do landscapes work as class codes? In Landscapes of Privilege, James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. They focus on an archetypal upper class American suburb - Bedford in Westchester County, New York.

How do landscapes work as class codes? In Landscapes of Privilege, James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb - Bedford in Westchester County, NY - they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion. Landscapes are very important in conveying social distinction and hierarchy - even while they make the ordering of a place appear 'natural' to everyone. Landscapes essentially act as cultural...