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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... public sphere has been seen as the sphere of universal reason and transcen- dence of the disembodied , disinterested Cartesian observer , in fact this model observer can be shown to be ( implicitly ) a white , bourgeois able - bodied ...
... public sphere have usually done so according to implicitly male rules , has to do with the mind / body dualism . This dualism and its spatial counterpart — the public / private division - can be shown to be an important structuring ...
... public sphere . Such a perspective on power as dispersed , inhering in informal as well as formal political practice ... public from private spaces , thus ( re ) politicizing both private and public spheres and corresponding spaces . I ...
... public / private spatial distinction . I then argue the case for a spatial revolution - a deterritorialization that would open and revitalize the public sphere making it more accessible to oppositional social movements and at the same ...
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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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