New frontiers of space, bodies, and gender / edited by Rosa Ainley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ainley, Rosa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban women--Social conditions.

Urban women.

Urban women--Psychology.

Women--Identity.

Women.

Sex role.

Spatial behavior.

Personal space.

Spatial ecology.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space, presenting a series of new explorations into both 'lived' and 'imagined' spaces and experiences.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Sisters in exile: the Lesbian Nation; 2 (Re)presenting shopping centres and bodies: questions of pregnancy; 3 Involving black and minority women in regeneration initiatives; 4 UnWomanly acts: struggling over sites of resistance; 5 Home and away; 6 Through their eyes; 7 Watching the detectors: control and the panopticon; 8 Having it all? A question of collaborative housing; 9 But is it worth taking the risk?'; 10 Lesbian space: more than one imagined territory

11 Ghetto girls/urban music: Jamaican ragga music and female performance12 Blurring the binaries? High tech in Cambridge; 13 Urban culture for virtual bodies; 14 You ever fuck a mutant?' Identity, technology and gender; 15 Beyond maps and metaphors?; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-236) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-73279-1

1-134-73280-5

1-280-33290-5

0-203-01938-5

0-203-15913-6

9780203019382

OCLC:

56999176