Places Through the Body - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041517905X ISBN 13: 9780415179058

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies.
Extensive introductory and concluding sections guide students through the key debates and themes. 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 architechtural 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
Here 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Heidi Nast is Assistant Professor in the International Studies Program, DePaul University. She is co-editor of Thresholds in Feminist Geography (1997). Steve Pile is Lecturer at the Open University. He is author of The Body and the City (1996) and co-editor of Geographies of Resistance (1997), both published by Routledge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 041517905X
• ISBN 13: 9780415179058
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Nast Heidi