ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the social, political, and economic aspects of corporeal geographies, beginning with a discussion of how gender is conceptualized. It defines the social construction of gender and performativity along with the concept of subjectivity. These explanations are followed by an exploration of the interchanging relationships between bodies and geographic spaces. Corporeal markers such as gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, and dress have been infused with social, political, and economic meanings that are spatially organized. The spatial organization of corporeal markers leads into a discussion of cultural bodies. The chapter concludes by discussing various forms of corporeal control (and resistance to control) in different locations and contexts. Subjectivity refers to the ways in which experience shapes understanding. Dominant forms of white masculinity have developed spatial imaginaries that are implicitly violent. The corporeal geographies of inscription manifest through different forms of bodily markers.
