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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960875103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2001

ISBN

1-134-73279-1

1-134-73280-5

1-280-33290-5

0-203-01938-5

0-203-15913-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AinleyRosa

Disciplina

305.4

Soggetti

Urban women - Social conditions

Urban women - Psychology

Women - Identity

Sex role

Spatial behavior

Personal space

Spatial ecology

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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