Space, Place and Gendered Identities - 9781138830493

Taylor & Francis

In the last two decades, historians have increasingly sought to understand how environments, \u2018built\u2019 and otherwise, architectural surroundings, landscapes, and conceptual \u2018places\u2019 and \u2018spaces\u2019 have affected the nature and scope of political power, cultural production and social experience . The essays in this collection expand upon this already rich \uFB01eld 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 space\u2014be that space domestic or public, rural or urban, real or imagined, or a combination of all these and more\u2014are 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 \u2018scene\u20.