Inside Out: Women negotiating, subverting, appropriating public and private space: 4 (Spatial Practices, 4) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042024410 ISBN 13: 9789042024410

Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2008

Synopsis

The incursions of women into areas from which they had been traditionally excluded, together with the literary representations of their attempts to negotiate, subvert and appropriate these forbidden spaces, is the underlying theme that unites this collection of essays. Here scholars from Australia, Greece, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland and the United States reconsider the well-entrenched assumptions associated with the public/private distinction, working with the notions of public and private spheres while testing their currency and exploring their blurred edges. The essays cover and uncover a rich variety of spaces, from the slums and court-rooms of London to the American wilderness, from the Victorian drawing-room and sick-room to out of the ordinary places like Turkish baths and the trenches of the First World War. Where previous studies have tended to focus on a single aspect of women’s engagement with space, this edited book reveals a plethora of subtle and tenacious strategies found in a variety of discourses that include fiction, poetry, diaries, letters, essays and journalism. Inside Out goes beyond the early work on artistic explorations of gendered space to explore the breadth of the field and its theoretical implications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042024410
• ISBN 13: 9789042024410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Gómez Reus Teresa, Usandizaga Aránzazu