Bodyspace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and SexualityNancy Duncan Psychology Press, 1996 - 278 pages 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. |
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... HETEROSEXUAL STREET ' Lesbian productions of space Gill Valentine 146 10 RENEGOTIATING THE SOCIAL / SEXUAL IDENTITIES OF PLACES Gay communities as safe havens or sites of resistance ? Wayne D. Myslik 156 11 ON BEING NOT EVEN ANYWHERE ...
... heterosexual regime ' . Kathleen M. Kirby has taught English and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee , Syracuse University and the University of New Hampshire , USA . She is author of Indifferent Boundaries ...
... heterosexual male . Many feminists today believe that the goals of earlier generations of feminists who sought greater access for themselves and other ' Others ' to this elite , male - dominated public sphere need to be reformulated ...
... Heterosexuality is being increasingly denaturalized as a result of the efforts of gays , lesbians and bisexuals , as well as by those who reject hetero- or homo- sexual orientation as the basis for a stable identity or identity politics ...
... heterosexual masculinity through dominance and aggression . Their attacks on gays both confirm and perform their heterosexuality for their peers . The attacks also play a role in policing and disciplining public behaviour , to force it ...
Contents
FEMINIST THEORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE New knowledges new epistemologies | 13 |
SPATIALIZING FEMINISM Geographic perspectives | 28 |
RE MAPPING SUBJECTIVITY Cartographic vision and the limits of politics | 45 |
AS IF THE MIRRORS HAD BLED Masculine dwelling masculinist theory and feminist masquerade | 56 |
RECORPOREALIZING VISION | 75 |
GENDERING NATIONHOOD A feminist engagement with national identity | 97 |
MASCULINITY DUALISMS AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY | 109 |
RENEGOTIATING GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACES | 127 |
RENEGOTIATING THE SOCIALSEXUAL IDENTITIES OF PLACES Gay communities as safe havens or sites of resistance? | 156 |
ON BEING NOT EVEN ANYWHERE NEAR THE PROJECT Ways of putting ourselves in the picture | 170 |
ENGENDERING RACE RESEARCH Unsettling the selfOther dichotomy | 197 |
DISPLACING THE FIELD IN FIELDWORK Masculinity metaphor and space | 212 |
REFLECTIONS ON POSTMODERN FEMINIST SOCIAL RESEARCH | 234 |
CONCLUSION | 245 |
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