genre, gender, femmes, women, feminism, féminisme, littérature, histoire urbaine, Cronin Anne M., Oakley-Brown Liz
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Abstract from the publisher :
Drawing on a range of different genres (oral narratives, poetry, first hand accounts, drama, prose, novels, travelogues and guidebooks), this issue asks how we understand the city. More specifically it asks how these genres motivate particular ways of conceptualising the city, exploring gender, sexuality and urban space. The articles offer an analysis of accounts and representations from the late 16th century to modern day and produce not only different ways of imagining the city, but different conceptual and sensory frameworks for experiencing it. They ‘re-gender’ and ‘re-sexualise’ the dominant ways of theorising urban space, challenging the ideal of the disembodied theorist who produces knowledge of the city.
Contents :
Editorial - Urban spaces : gender, genre, mediation - Anne M Cronin and Liz Oakley-Brown Keynote - Unmapped spaces – gender, generation and the city - Janet Wolff ‘Ah famous citie’: women, writing, and early modern London - Helen Wilcox Playing for all in the city: women's drama - Alison Findlay Queer sex in the metropolis? place, subjectivity and the Second World War - Emma Vickers Revolutionary voices: Nordic women writers and the development of female urban prose 1860–1900 - Janke Klok Alice Notley's disobedient cities - Zoë Skoulding
Open Space : Introduction to open space - Nirmal Puwar Once More with Feeling: an abbreviated history of feminist performance art - Oriana Fox The eyes of Agnès Varda: portraiture, cinécriture and the filmic ethnographic eye - Emma Jackson On fiction, femininity, and fashion: an interview with Linda Grant - Emma Parker You and me do not start here - Nirmal Puwar
Book Reviews
Anne M. Cronin is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University. Liz Oakley-Brown is a Lecturer in Renaissance Writing at Lancaster University.
