BodySpace brings together some of the best known geographers writing on gender and sexuality today. Together they explore the role of space and place in the performance of gender and sexuality.
The book takes a broad perspective on feminism as a theoretical critique, and aims to ground - and destabilize - notions of citizenship, work, violence, "race" and disability in their geographical contexts.
The book explores the idea of knowledge as embodied, engendered and embedded in place and space. Gender and sexuality are explored - and destabilized - through the methodological and conceptual lenses of cartography, fieldwork, resistance, transgression and the divisions between local/global and public/private space.
Contributors: Linda Martin Alcoff, Kay Anderson, Vera Chouinard, Nancy Duncan, J.K. Gibson-Graham, Ali Grant, Kathleen Kirby, Audrey Kobayashi, Doreen Massey, Linda McDowell, Wayne Myslik, Heidi Nast, Gillian Rose, Joanne Sharp, Matthew Sparke, Gill Valentine
INTRODUCTION (Re)placings Part I (Re)readings 1 FEMINIST THEORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE New knowledges, new epistemologies 2 SPATIALIZING FEMINISM Geographic perspectives 3 RE: MAPPING SUBJECTIVITY Cartographic vision and the limits of politics 4 AS IF THE MIRRORS HAD BLED Masculine dwelling, masculinist theory and feminist masquerade 5 RE-CORPOREALIZING VISION Part II (Re)negotiations 6 GENDERING NATIONHOOD A feminist engagement with national identity 7 MASCULINITY, DUALISMS AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY 8 RENEGOTIATING GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACES 9 (RE)NEGOTIATING THE 'HETEROSEXUAL STREET' Lesbian productions of space 10 RENEGOTIATING THE SOCIAL/SEXUAL IDENTITIES OF PLACES Gay communities as safe havens or sites of resistance? 11 ON BEING NOT EVEN ANYWHERE NEAR 'THE PROJECT' Ways of putting ourselves in the picture Part III (Re)searchings 12 ENGENDERING RACE RESEARCH Unsettling the self-Other dichotomy 13 DISPLACING THE FIELD IN FIELDWORK Masculinity, metaphor and space 14 REFLECTIONS ON POSTMODERN FEMINIST SOCIAL RESEARCH
