ABSTRACT

This collection unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space and presents a series of new explorations into both 'lived' and 'imagined' spaces.
In New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender leading contemporary writers from across an eclectic mix of disciplines, examine an exciting array of issues such as:
* Jamaican Ragga music and female performance
* Feminist anti-violence work
* Pregnant women's experience of shopping centres
* The fear of crime felt by women using urban greenspace
* Implications of technology in gendering identities
This book forges new parameters for debates of gender and space, leaving behind the simple focus on women-as-victim in the public arena and remapping considerations of space which look beyond bricks and mortar. Contributors: Aylish Wood, Robyn Longhurst, Ali Grant, Lesley Klein, Affrica Taylor, Inga-Lisa Sangregorio, Jacqueline Leavitt, Tracey Skelton, Nina Wakeford, Jos Boys, Sally R. Munt, Doreen Massey, Jacquie Burgess, Maher Anjum, Lynne Walker.

part I|61 pages

Coming From The Same Place? Bodies

chapter 1|17 pages

Sisters in exile

The Lesbian Nation

chapter 2|15 pages

(Re)Presenting Shopping Centres And Bodies

Questions Of Pregnancy

chapter 3|15 pages

Involving Black And Minority Women In Regeneration Initiatives

A case study of Bethnal Green City Challenge

chapter 4|12 pages

Unwomanly Acts

Struggling Over Sites Of Resistance

part II|49 pages

Taking Another Look: Spaces

chapter 5|11 pages

Home And Away

The Feminist Remapping Of Public And Private Space In Victorian London

chapter 6|12 pages

Through Their Eyes

Young Girls Look At Their Los Angeles Neighbourhood

chapter 7|13 pages

Watching The Detectors

Control And The Panopticon

chapter 8|11 pages

Having It All?

A Question Of Collaborative Housing

part III|42 pages

Outside Possibilities: Cultural Planning

chapter 9|14 pages

‘But Is It Worth Taking The Risk?’

How Women Negotiate Access To Urban Woodland: A Case Study

chapter 10|13 pages

Lesbian Space

More Than One Imagined Territory

chapter 11|13 pages

Ghetto Girls/Urban Music

Jamaican Ragga Music And Female Performance

part IV|63 pages

‘Altogether Elsewhere’: Futures

chapter 12|19 pages

Blurring The Binaries?

High Tech In Cambridge

chapter 13|15 pages

Urban Culture For Virtual Bodies

Comments On Lesbian ‘Identity’ and ‘Community’ In San Francisco Bay Area Cyberspace

chapter 14|12 pages

‘You Ever Fuck A Mutant?’

Identity, Technology, And Gender In Total Recall

chapter 15|15 pages

Beyond Maps And Metaphors?

Re-Thinking The Relationships Between Architecture And Gender