ABSTRACT
Social power is reflected in and exercised through the production and control of space. These sociospatial relations are gendered and vary across the life course, riddled by differences associated with class, ethnicity, race and nationality. From ‘dad's chair’ to occupied national territories, the spatial forms of control are charged with and interpenetrated by political-economic power, cultural meaning and personal significance. These conjunctures are neither stable over time, nor distributed evenly across space. This chapter explores their form and significance at particular periods and transitions in the life course of females, emphasizing the shifts from childhood to youth and womanhood in two divergent settings — rural Sudan and urban United States.
