ABSTRACT
Feminists are presently exploring the far-reaching implications of a new epistemological viewpoint based on the idea of knowledge as embodied, engendered and embedded in the material context of place and space. This requires not amendments or additions to allegedly universal (but in actuality masculinist and often Eurocentric) discourse, nor a reversal, but a ‘strategic transformation’ (Alcoff, this volume). The contributors to this volume wish to help push this project forward through a reconsideration and repoliticization of such geographical concepts as space, place, the local and the global, sites of resistance, cartography, fieldwork, the transgression of boundaries, and the public/ private division of space. Thus, as the title suggests, BodySpace intends to ‘place’ gender and sexuality (in both corporeal and discursive terms) squarely on the academic agenda by emphasizing place, space and other geographic concepts that are useful in contextualizing and situating social relations.
