This collection unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space and presents a series of new explorations into both 'lived' and 'imagined' spaces. In New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender leading contemporary writers from across an eclectic mix of disciplines, examine an exciting array of issues such as: * Jamaican Ragga music and female performance * Feminist anti-violence work * Pregnant women's experience of shopping centres * The fear of crime felt by women using urban greenspace * Implications of technology in gendering identities This book forges new parameters for debates of gender and space, leaving behind the simple focus on women-as-victim in the public arena and remapping considerations of space which look beyond bricks and mortar. Contributors: Aylish Wood, Robyn Longhurst, Ali Grant, Lesley Klein, Affrica Taylor, Inga-Lisa Sangregorio, Jacqueline Leavitt, Tracey Skelton, Nina Wakeford, Jos Boys, Sally R. Munt, Doreen Massey, Jacquie Burgess, Maher Anjum, Lynne Walker.
Author(s): Rosa Ainley *Nfa*, Rosa Ainley
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 264
Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of illustrations......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
1 Sisters in exile: the Lesbian Nation......Page 22
2 (Re)presenting shopping centres and bodies: questions of pregnancy......Page 39
3 Involving black and minority women in regeneration initiatives......Page 54
4 UnWomanly acts: struggling over sites of resistance......Page 69
5 Home and away......Page 84
6 Through their eyes......Page 95
7 Watching the detectors: control and the panopticon......Page 107
8 Having it all? A question of collaborative housing......Page 120
9 But is it worth taking the risk?'......Page 134
10 Lesbian space: more than one imagined territory......Page 148
11 Ghetto girls/urban music: Jamaican ragga music and female performance......Page 161
12 Blurring the binaries? High tech in Cambridge......Page 176
13 Urban culture for virtual bodies......Page 195
14 You ever fuck a mutant?' Identity, technology and gender......Page 210
15 Beyond maps and metaphors?......Page 222
Bibliography......Page 237
Index......Page 256
