Genderbashing: sexuality, gender, and the regulation of public space
The A. addresses the relations between gender and sexuality in violence known as gaybashing, and argues that a perceived transgression of normative sex-gender relations motivates most aggressive incidents. The implications for this insight
for the individuals who live outside normative relations (transgenders) are considered. The ways in which the public space is defined through gender are examined. There is also an analysis of antiviolence activism in the city of Montréal.
Gender and class identities in process and in place: the local state as a site of gender and class formation
Canada ; Community ; Conflict ; Gender difference ; Local administration ; Local policy ; Ontario ; Social class ; Social practice ; Societal relations ; Society
The A. argues that gender and class formation within local states involves processes of conflict, accomodation, co-optation, and transformation. Variations in material conditions of struggle contribute to fragmented or contradictory experiences
of gender and class relations in and against local states. Two Canadian examples are used. The first is that of recent feminist and working-class struggles within Ontario's legal-aid clinic system. The second is that of the development of a women-only
That'lt be like a blush-rose when tha' grows up, my little lass: English cultural and gendered identity in The Secret Garden
Cultural identity ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; England ; Garden ; Gender difference ; Semiotics of space ; Social class ; United Kingdom
Feminist geographers are now engaging with the gender implications of landscape representation. In this paper, the multiple significances of the garden in F.H. Burnett (1911) children's story The Secret Garden are explored. Using an approach
informed by feminisms and poststructuralisms the A. draws attention to intersections of late-19th and early 20th century discourses on Englishness, gender, class and nature.
Involuntary mobility, gender, and travel demand management in Metropolitan Phoenix
Arizona ; Commuting ; Demand ; Gender difference ; Management ; Road transport ; Transport ; United States of America ; Urban migration ; Urban traffic
Increasing use of oral testimony in geographical research in rural areas is examined. Checks are made upon the accuracy of such testimony in relationship to the researcher's community, gender and race. - (AJC)
grounded cultural politics of advertising. The AA. take an example which plays on the audience's sense of shifting gender identities and on the evocation of particular place images.
The establishment of ethics procedures in Australian universities forces most interview-based studies into an empirical-realist framework of scientific enquiry. Ethic procedures generally fail to cope with issues of power and gender relations
Behaviour ; Espace vécu ; Ethnic community ; Gender difference ; Power ; Public order ; Public space ; Sense of belonging ; Social relations ; Town ; Urban area