ABSTRACT
I begin with a word of warning about the use of spatial terms, and more specifically about terms which denote and connote ‘edge’ and ‘limit’ such as ‘jurisdiction’. Smith and Katz (1993) emphasise the need to carefully examine the relationship between space and language. In particular, they warn of the way spatial terms connote fixity and stability, thereby erasing the contingency of space and the political struggle by which different spaces and spatial
sexualised body has long been one context in which the body as the spatial metaphor of good/bad order has been produced (see, for example, Boswell, 1980). The case studies explored in this chapter examine two proximate contexts in which the sexual body is a space-body interface through which political struggles that make up the institutional, organisational and functional boundaries of law’s force take place.
