Places through the body [electronic resource] / edited by Heidi J. Nast and Steve Pile.

This exciting collection from a leading team of international contributors interprets the symbolic and material relationships between places and bodies.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Nast, Heidi J., Pile, Steve, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Making places bodies / Heidi J. Nast, Steve Pile
  • Queer(y)ing globalization / J.K. Gibson-Graham
  • Bodies-cities / Elizabeth Grosz
  • Human.language.machine / Ken Hillis
  • Missing kitchens / Susan Bordo, Binnie Klein, Marilyn K. Silverman
  • The body as "place": reflexivity and fieldwork in Kano, Nigeria / Heidi J. Nast
  • Harem: colonial fiction and architectural fantasm in turn-of-the-century France / Emily Apter
  • Dancing in the dark: the inscription of blackness in Le Corbusier's Radiant City / Mabel O. Wilson
  • The South African body politic: space, race and heterosexuality / Glen S. Elder
  • The house behind / Karen Bermann
  • Beyond nomadism: the travel narratives of a "cripple" / Michael I. Dorn
  • Encountering Mary: ritualization and place contagion in postmodernity / Angela K. Martin, Sandra Kryst
  • Perverse desire: the lure of the mannish lesbian / Teresa De Lauretis
  • Reading the sexed bodies and spaces of gyms / Lynda Johnston
  • Ladies and gentlemen: train rides and other Oedipal stories / Virginia L. Blum Inscribing domestic work on Filipina bodies / Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  • Mapped bodies and disembodies maps: (dis)placing cartographic struggle in colonial Canada / Matthew Sparke
  • Embodying the urban Maori warrior / Gregory A. Waller
  • Sex, violence and the weather: male hysteria, scale and the fractal geographies of patriarchy / Christopher Lukinbeal and Stuart C. Aitken
  • Written on the body: eroticism, death and hagiography / Giuliana Bruno
  • Everyday places bodies / Heidi J. Nast, Steve Pile.