By Robyn Longhurst
This can be one of many first books to introduce scholars to the main strategies and debates surrounding the connection among physically barriers, abject materiality and areas. The textual content contains unique interview and concentration staff info proficient by means of feminist thought at the physique and makes use of case stories to demonstrate the social development of our bodies. it is going to seriously interact scholars in topical questions round sexuality, cultural modifications and women's sub-ordination to males.
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He urges geographers to keep in sight the material environments that ‘real’ bodies must negotiate. We must not take ‘flight from the messiness of disability into myth and metaphor’ (Dorn 1998: 184). Of course it is not only disabled bodies, but all bodies, that are messy (although some are considered messier than others). Dorn correctly points out that disabled persons are likely to find numerous material environments more difficult to negotiate than able-bodied persons, but every body has a weighty materiality and boundaries that are enmeshed in specific social and cultural systems of signification.
The reason this is significant is that the messiness of bodies is often conceptualised as feminised and as such is Othered. Bracketing out questions about the boundaries of body/space relationships functions as an attempt to position geographical knowledge as that which can be separated out from corporeality, the corporeality of its subjects and its producers. Ignoring the messy body is not a harmless omission, rather, it contains a political imperative that helps keep masculinism intact. This exclusion of the material body may be, in part, both a reflection and result of social constructionism which has gained recognition in the discipline over the last decade.
Linda McDowell (1993: 306) urges geographers to consider the body more carefully and suggests that ‘the implications of these differences [between men’s and women’s bodies] for geographical concepts of spatiality, boundaries and community remain to be explored’. In Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies (1999) McDowell devotes a chapter to ‘In and out of place: bodies and embodiment’. J. K. Gibson-Graham (1996), prompted by Sharon Marcus’s (1992) work on rape, poses questions about the parallels between women’s bodies being scripted as ‘lack’ (awaiting rape) and conceptualisations of global capitalism as penetrating.