ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the 'Angel of the North', her changing public-private inhabitations and nostalgic generational-gender troubles. The place of families, as the proper place of children, women and the future of communities is associated in 'rhetorics of territory', where women's material labour is effaced even as 'maps of loyalty and of affect' hold up families as reference. It would seem that some women are more on the map than others and that new-old ways are refigured in senses of familial, communal and individual loss' and 'gain' spatialised across everyday landscapes of the North East. Gender is 'landscaped' not by an individual chooser now poised and able to take up her place, but through histories and habits where changing social, economic, moral geographies influence older and younger women. The shutting down and obstruction of open spaces and practices, signified most dramatically through the Byker Wall development as containment rather than community as a moral and material decline of respectable working-class ways.
