ABSTRACT
The language of spatiality, according to Susan Friedman (1998), gained terrain in the feminist debate during the mid-1980s in correspondence with the progressive abandonment of the rhetoric of rebirth by Third Wave feminists – well-expressed in the concept of consciousness-raising – which had prevailed in the previous decades. The emergence of a ‘locational rhetoric’ was facilitated by the confluence of several conditions: the debate on multiculturalism and increasing migratory flows in the USA, the narrative of postmodernity and its insistence on movement and fluidity, the voices of postcolonial histories and theories developing both inside and outside the Western academy and, finally, the ‘computer revolution’, with its prevailing spatial rhetoric.
