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Phobic geographies : the phenomenology and spatiality of identity / Joyce Davidson.
Van Pelt Library RC552.A44 D386 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Joyce, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agoraphobia.
- Human geography.
- Medical geography.
- Women--Mental health.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 160 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Notes on Stories, Selves and Spaces 1
- 1 What in the World is Agoraphobia? 8
- 2 'Joking Apart...': The Negotiation of Group Boundaries Through Humour 34
- 3 Fear and Trembling in the Mall: Kierkegaard and Consumer/Consuming Spaces 54
- 4 'Putting on a Face': Sartre, Goffman and Agoraphobic Anxiety in Social Space 69
- 5 A Phenomenology of Fear: Merleau-Ponty and Agoraphobic Life-Worlds 88
- 6 Pregnant Pauses: Agoraphobic Embodiment and the Limits of (Im)pregnability 106
- 7 'All in the Mind...?': Analysing the Subject of 'Self-Help' 121
- Conclusion: Re/solution of Spatial Identities 140.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-155) and index.
- ISBN:
- 075463244X
- OCLC:
- 51615336
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