Title & Author:

Places through the body / edited by Heidi J. Nast and Steve Pile.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Description:

xviii, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The cover illustrations: a word from the artist / Cindy Davies. 1. Introduction: MakingPlacesBodies / Heidi J. Nast and Steve Pile -- Pt. 1. FilteringPlacesBodies. 2. Queer(y)ing globalization / J. K. Gibson-Graham. 3. Bodies-cities / Elizabeth Grosz. 4. Human.language.machine / Ken Hillis. 5. Missing kitchens / Susan Bordo, Binnie Klein and Marilyn K. Silverman. 6. The body as "place": reflexivity and fieldwork in Kano, Nigeria / Heidi J. Nast -- Pt. 2. ConfiningPlacesBodies. 7. Harem: colonial fiction and architectural fantasm in turn-of-the-century France / Emily Apter. 8. Dancing in the dark: the inscription of blackness in Le Corbusier's Radiant City / Mabel O. Wilson. 9. The South African body politic: space, race and heterosexuality / Glen S. Elder. 10. The house behind / Karen Bermann -- Pt. 3. ExcessingPlacesBodies. 11. Beyond nomadism: the travel narratives of a "cripple" / Michael L. Dorn.
12. Encountering Mary: ritualization and place contagion in postmodernity / Angela K. Martin and Sandra Kryst. 13. Perverse desire: the lure of the mannish lesbian / Teresa De Lauretis. 14. Reading the sexed bodies and spaces of gyms / Lynda Johnston. 15. Ladies and gentlemen: train rides and other Oedipal stories / Virginia L. Blum -- Pt. 4. ProjectingPlacesBodies. 16. Inscribing domestic work on Filipina bodies / Geraldine Pratt / Philippine Women Centre, Vancouver, Canada. 17. Mapped bodies and disembodied maps: (dis)placing cartographic struggle in colonial Canada / Matthew Sparke. 18. Embodying the urban Maori warrior / Gregory A. Waller. 19. Sex, violence and the weather: male hysteria, scale and the fractal geographies of patriarchy / Christopher Lukinbeal and Stuart C. Aitken. 20. Written on the body: eroticism, death and hagiography / Giuliana Bruno. 21. EverydayPlacesBodies / Heidi J. Nast and Steve Pile.

Summary:

"This engaging collection of essays interprets the symbolic and material relationships between places and bodies. Places Through the Body draws on a wide range of contemporary examples and creative ideas to address such topics as: how racist ideologies are embedded in modern architectural discourse and practice; how urban spaces make bodies disabled; how the seemingly virtual worlds of knowledge and technology are embodied; how gyms enable women body builders to make new kinds of bodies; how male bodies are placed onto the silver screen; new kinds of femininity. This collection brings together geographers, architects, anthropologists, artists, film theorists, theorists of cultural studies and psycho-analysis work alongside each other to make clear connections between bodies and places." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/97037994-d.html.

Resources:
1998.
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0415179041 (cloth)
9780415179041 (cloth)
041517905X (pbk.)
9780415179058 (pbk.)
9780203976531
0203976533

Subject:

Human geography.
Human body Social aspects.
Human body Symbolic aspects.
Spatial behavior.
Personal space.
Corps humain Aspect social.
Corps humain Aspect symbolique.
Espace personnel.
Geografischer Raum
Körper
Soziologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Sociale aspecten.
Lichamelijkheid.
Ruimtegebruik.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Nast, Heidi J.
Pile, Steve, 1961-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204101
Call No.: GF50 . P57 1998
Status: Available