ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that it is important to consider how meanings of 'race' and gender are reproduced in writing, but also in writing that seeks to expose these meanings. It argues that the gendered and racialised body is marked by a lessened ability to move and by its belonging to particular spaces. The chapter uses the work by Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon to explore recent work by anti-racist feminist Canadian scholar, Sherene Razack. The chapter shows that through a focus on the gendered and racialised constitution of the materiality of both bodies and space, we can develop and nuance Razack's argument that the racialised and gendered body is marked by a belonging to particular spaces and a lessened ability to move. Social space enters into Fanon's analysis in interesting ways; first, as that which provides the context for embodiment, and secondly, in the relationship of the racialised body and social space.
