ABSTRACT
In this concluding chapter, I draw together some thoughts on pregnant bodies in public places, men’s bodies in toilets/bathrooms, and managers’ bodies in workplaces in CBDs in order to illustrate that bodies and spaces are neither clearly separable nor stable. I attempt to destabilise notions of self/other and subject/object in relation to these spaces. I slip between talking about the body as a space (for example, the interuterine space of the pregnant body) and the intimate spaces that the body inhabits (for example, domestic toilets/bathrooms). The spaces of the body and its environs become close, intimate, merged and indeterminable as they make each other in fluid and complex ways. The interuterine spaces of pregnant bodies, defecating men and managers whose bodies attempt, but inevitably fail, to be respectable – conjure up images of close(t) spaces. They are close spaces in that they are familiar, near and intimate. They are also closet spaces in that they are often socially constructed as too familiar, near, intimate and threatening to be disclosed publicly.
