| Description |
xviii, 429 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Human geography.
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Personal space.
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Spatial behavior.
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| Author |
Nast, Heidi J.
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Pile, Steve, 1961-
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| LC no. |
97037994 |
| ISBN |
0415179041 (cloth) |
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041517905X (paperback) |
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