ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the intersection of class, gender and race. Class is known through geographical locations allowing some classed subjects to literally extend themselves into space, while others are rendered both absent and excessively present. There are real resentments, envies and desires displayed in area assessment of 'posh' as opposed to 'rough' places, which summon resources and dispositions. The boundaries of getting the 'good mix' right are interestingly expressed and materialised within middle-class space where the wrong youthful body of the student becomes potentially excessive and out of place: students in particular are credited with a capacity in bringing areas forward. The parameters of privilege and pretention here are restricted to women's bodies, where evaluative glances are cast over other excessive women as Norma repositions herself within the parameters of ordinariness, where temporal claims are used to distinguish between reality and superficiality.
