In the last two decades, historians have increasingly sought to understand how environments, ābuiltā and otherwise, architectural surroundings, landscapes, and conceptual āplacesā and āspacesā have affected the nature and scope of political power, cultural production and social experience . The essays in this collection expand upon this already rich ļ¬eld of inquiry by combining an analytical approach sensitive to questions of gender with an exploration of ideas of political space. The volume demonstrates how the gendered and political meanings of spaceābe that space domestic or public, rural or urban, real or imagined, or a combination of all these and moreāare fashioned through the movement of historical actors through space and time. Whether in delineating the gendered and politicized space of the pulpit; the sickroom; the Irish farmyard; the London suffrage atelier; the domestic space created by the wireless; the lesbian āsceneā of rural Canada; the eighteenth-century ladies' āclosetā; or the public space within the āpublic historyā of historic houses, the volume demonstrates how the meanings of these spaces are not fixed, but are challenged and reformulated.
This book was originally published as a special issue of womenās History Review.
Space, Place and Gendered Identities - Kathryne Beebe & Angela Davis
In the last two decades, historians have increasingly sought to understand how environments, ābuiltā and otherwise, architectural surroundings, landscapes, and conceptual āplacesā and āspacesā have affected the nature and scope of political power, cultural production and social experience . The essays in this collection expand upon this already rich ļ¬eld of inquiry by combining an analytical approach sensitive to questions of gender with an exploration of ideas of political space. The volume demonstrates how the gendered and political meanings of spaceābe that space domestic or public, rural or urban, real or imagined, or a combination of all these and moreāare fashioned through the movement of historical actors through space and time. Whether in delineating the gendered and politicized space of the pulpit; the sickroom; the Irish farmyard; the London suffrage atelier; the domestic space created by the wireless; the lesbian āsceneā of rural Canada; the eighteenth-century ladies' āclosetā; or the public space within the āpublic historyā of historic houses, the volume demonstrates how the meanings of these spaces are not fixed, but are challenged and reformulated.
This book was originally published as a special issue of womenās History Review.