Research on Space & Place: Gender Studies, Feminism, Sexuality, and Queer Theory

Websites

• Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
• Violence, Sexuality and Space Research Project

Journals

• Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture
  1. CFP, Issue on Place & Space – Deadline: Oct. 1, 2002.

On-line Bibliographies

• Gender in Geography (Ellen Hanson)
• Geography and Masculinities (Lawrence Berg, Robyn Longhurst)
• Violence, Sexuality and Space Bibliography

Courses and Programs

• Gender, Sexuality, and the City (Jessica Sewell)

General Bibliography

Go to work by (this link may not include all work available by this author; use the search engine above for more):

Aiken, Susan Hardy, ed. Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, Materiality. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.

Ainley, Rosa, ed. New frontiers of space, bodies, and gender. London; New York: Routledge, 1998.

Aitkin, Stuart C. & Thomas Herman. “Gender, Power and Crib Geography: transitional spaces and potential places.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 4:1 (March 1997): 63-88.

Alaimo, Stacy. Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space. Cornell University Press, 2000.

Criglington, Meredith. “Preoccupied Spaces: Review of Alaimo, Stacy, Undomesticated Ground.” http://www.canlit.ca/reviews/unassigned/5664_criglington.html

Alder, Sy; Brenner, Johanna. “Gender and space: lesbians and gay men in the city,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 16 (1992): 24-34.

Amoo-Adare, Epifania. “En-gendering critical spatial literacy: Migrant Asante women and the politics of urban space.” Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies 1:1 (Spring 2004). http://web.cortland.edu/wagadu/issue1/epifania.htm

Ardener, S. ed. Women & Space: Ground Rules & Social Maps. London: Croom Helm, 1981; Palgrave Macmillan, 1993.

Bacchetta, Paola. “Rescaling transnational queer Dom: lesbian identitary positionalities in Dehli in the 1980s” Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 34 (2002): 947-973.

Belausteguigoitia, Marisa. “Visualizing places: ‘she looks, therefore … who is?’.” Development 41:2 (1998): 44-52.

Bell, David. “Bisexuality: a place on the margins,” in S. Whittle ed The Margins of the City. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1994.

Bell, David; Valentine, Gill eds. Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexuality. London: Routledge, 1995.

Berg, Lawrence and Robyn Longhurst. “Placing Masculinities and Geography.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 10:4 (December 2003): 351-360.

Best, Susan. “The Flesh of the World: The Female Body and Space.” http://home.iprimus.com.au/painless/space/suebest.html

Betsky, Aaron. Queer Space: Architecture and Same-Sex Desire. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc. 1997.

Binnie, John. “Coming out of geography: towards a queer epistemology,” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 15 (1997): 223-237.

Binnie, John; Valentine, Gill. “Geographies of sexuality: a review of progress” Progress in Human Geography 23 (1999): 175-187.

Booth, S. “Reconstructing Sexual Geography: Gender and Space in Changing Sicilian Settlements” in Birdwell-Pheasant, Donna and D. Lawrence-Zúñiga. (eds.) House Life-space: Place, Space and Family in Europe. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 1999.

Boyer, Kate. “Place and the Politics of Virtue: clerical work, corporate anxiety, and changing meanings of public womanhood in early twentieth-century Montreal.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 5:3 (November 1998): 261-275.

Brown, Michael. “Ironies of distance: an ongoing critique of the geographies of AIDS.” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 13: 1995: 159-183.

Brown, Michael. RePlacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy. New York: Guilford Press, 1997.

Brown, Michael P. Closet space: geographies of metaphor from the body to the globe. London: Routledge, 2000.

Callaghan, Gill. “The Interaction of Gender, Class and Place in Women’s Experience: A Discussion Based in Focus Group Research.” Sociological Research Online. 3:3 (1998) http://www.socresonline.org.uk/3/3/8.html

Camiz, Paulo. “Can Space Perception Be Gender-Dependent?” International Review of Sociology 6:3 (1996): 371-376.

Caramazza, Elena. “A Contribution of Psychoanalytical Experience to the Representations of Gender Space.” International Review of Sociology 6:3 (1996): 437-442.

Chi, L. K. “Pedagogical Working on Place: Women’s economic activism in rural China.” Development 45:1 (March 2002): 84-87.

Colomina, Beatriz, ed. Sexuality and Space. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.

Wilson, Elizabeth. “Review of Colomina, Beatriz, ed. Sexuality and Space.” Harvard Design Magazine 1 (Winter/Spring 1997): 1-3. http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/back_issues/1books_wilson.pdf

Cruz-Malve, Arnaldo; Manalansan, Marlin eds. Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism. New York: NYU Press, 2002.

Currie, G. and C. Rothenberg, eds. Feminist (Re)visions of the Subject: Landscapes, Ethnoscapes, and Theoryscapes. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001.

Day, Kristen. “The Ethic of Care and Women’s Experiences of Public Space.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 20:2 (June 2000): 103-124.

Deutsche, Rosalyn. “Men in Space.” Strategies 3 (1990).

Deutsche, Rosalyn. “Architecture of the Evicted.” Strategies 3 (1990).

Dirklik, A. “Women and the Politics of Place: A comment.” Development 45:1 (March 2002): 14-18.

Domosh, M. “Geography and gender: home, again?” Progress in Human Geography 22:2 (1998): 276-282.

Domosh, Mona and Karen M. Morin. “Travels with feminist historical geography.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 10:3 (September 2003): 257-264.

Duncan, Nancy, ed. BodySpace: destablizing geographies of gender and sexuality. Routledge, London and New York, 1996.

Elder, Glenn. “The South African body politic: space, race, and heterosexuality,” in Nast, Heidi & Steve Pile. Places Through the Body. London & New York: Routledge, 1998.

Elder, Glen. “‘Queerying’ boundaries in the geography classroom,” Journal of Geography in Higher Education 23 (1999): 86-93.

Elder, Glen. Malevolent Geographies: Sex, Space, and the Apartheid Legacy. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004.

Forest, Benjamin. “West Hollywood as symbol: the significance of place in the construction of a gay identity.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 13 (1995): 133-157.

Flanagan, Mary. “Navigating the narrative in space: Gender and spatiality in virtual worlds.” Art Journal (Fall 2000) http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0425/is_3_59/ai_66238371

Garrity, Jane and Laura Doan. Sapphic Modernities: Sexuality, Women and English Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Gesler, Wilbert & Robin A. Kearns. Culture/Place/Health. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Graham, J. “Women and the Politics of Place: Ruminations and responses.” Development 45:1 (March 2002): 18-22.

Grueso, L. & A. Arroyo. “Women and the Defence of Place in Colombian Black Movement Struggles.” Development 45:1 (March 2002): 60-67.

Gyssels, K. & I. Hoving. “Newness, survival, place.” Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 8:1 (January 2002): 11-17.

Hahn, Dan F. & Deborah Borisoff. “How Do We Keep Women in their Place if Woman Is Place?” Communication Quarterly 47:3 (Summer 1999): S14ff.

Harcourt, W. & A. Escobar. “Women and the Politics of Place.” Development 45:1 (March 2002): 7-14. http://www.sidint.org/programmes/politicsplace/backgroundpaperpolitics.pdf

Hemmings, Clare. Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Gender and Sexuality. Routledge, 2002.

Horelli, L. “European Women in Defence of Place: Resource centres in Finland.” Development 45:1 (March 2002): 137-142.

Hubbard, Phil. “Sexuality, immorality, and the city: red-light districts and the marginalization of female street prostitutes,” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 5 (1998): 55-76.

Jacobs, Jane M. & Catherine Nash. “Too little, too much: cultural feminist geographies.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 10:3 (September 2003): 265-279.

Kirby, S. and Hay, S. “(Hetero)sexing space. Gay men and ‘straight’ space in Adelaide, South Australia.” Professional Geographer 49:3 (1997): 295-305.

Kitchin, Rob; Lysaght, Karen. “Heterosexism and the geographies of everyday life in Belfast, Northern Ireland” Environment and Planning A 35 (2003): 489-510.

Knopp, Lawrence. “Sexuality and the spatial dynamics of capitalism,” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 10 (1992): 651-669.

Knopp, Lawrence. “Sexuality and urban space: gay male identity politics in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia,” in R. Fincher and J. Jacobs eds. Cities of Difference. New York: Guilford Press, 1998.

Knopp, Lawrence. “Ontologies of place, placelessness, and movement: queer quests for identity and their impacts on contemporary geographic thought” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 11 (2004): 121-134.

Kodera, Kyoto. “Gender and Space in Japanese Society: An Illusion of ‘Motherhood’.” International Review of Sociology 6:3 (1996): 465-477.

Kramer, Jerry-Lee. “Batchelor farmers and spinsters: gay and lesbian identities and communities in rural North Dakota, in Bell, David; Valentine, Gill eds. Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexuality. London: Routledge, 1995.

Longhurst, Robyn. “‘Corporeographies’ of Pregnancy: ‘Bikini Babes'” Environment and Planning D-Society & Space 18:4 (2000): 453-472.

Ma, Agustin L. “Challenging Place: Leaving home for sex.” Development 45:1 (March 2002): 110-117.

Mani, Lata. “Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception.” http://humwww.ucsc.edu/CultStudies/PUBS/Inscriptions/vol_5/LataMani.html

Martin, Angela. “The Practice of Identity and an Irish Sense of Place.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 4:1 (March 1997): 89-114.

Massey, Doreen. Space, Place and Gender. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Mathani, Minelle. “Racial ReMappings: The Potential of Paradoxical Space.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 8:3 (September 2001): 299-305.

Mazey, Mary Ellen, David R. Lee. Her Space, Her Place: A Geography Of Women. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, 1983.

McDowell, Linda. “Space, Place and Gender Relations: Part I. Feminist Empiricism and the Geography of Social Relations.” Progress in Human Geography 17:2 (June 1993): 157-179.

McDowell, Linda. “Space, Place and Gender Relations: Part II. Identity, Difference, Feminist Geometries and Geographies.” Progress in Human Geography 17:3 (September 1993): 305-318.

McDowell,Linda. “Spatializing Feminism: geographic perspectives.” In Nancy Duncan, BodySpace: destablizing geographies of gender and sexuality. London and New York: Routledge, 1996: 28-44.

McDowell, Linda. Gender, Identity, and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Mills, Sara. “Gender and Colonial Space.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 3:2 (July 1996): 125 – 148.

Mohanran, Radhika. “The Construction of Place: Maori Feminism and Nationalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand.” NWSA Journal 8:1 (Spring 1996): 50-69.

Mohanram, Radhika. Black Body: Women, Colonialism and Space. St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1999.

Mundt, Sallie. “The lesbian flaneur,” in Bell, David; Valentine, Gill eds. Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexuality. London: Routledge, 1995.

Myslik, Wayne. “Renegotiating the social/sexual identities of places: gay communities as safe havens or sites of resistance? In Duncan, Nancy, ed. BodySpace: destablizing geographies of gender and sexuality. Routledge, London and New York, 1996.

Nairn, Karen. “What has the geography of sleeping arrangements got to do with the geography of our teaching spaces?” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 10 (2003): 67-81.

Namaste, Ki. “Genderbashing: sexuality, gender, and the regulation of public space” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 14 (1996): 221-240.

Nast, Heidi & Steve Pile. Places Through the Body. London & New York: Routledge, 1998.

Niranjana, Seemanthini. Gender and Space: Femininity, Sexualization and the Female Body. Sage Publications, 2001.

Oberdeck, J. “Class, Place, and Gender: Contested Industrial and Domestic Space in Kohler, Wisconsin, USA, 1920-1960.” Gender & History 13:1 (April 2001): 97-137.

Osterweil, M. “Women Negotiating Place: A Review of current feminist writings.” Development 45:1 (March 2002): 148-151.

Oswin, Natalie. “Researching ‘gay Cape Town’: Finding value-added queerness” Social & Cultural Geography 5 (2005): in press.

Paris, J. W. & R. E. Anderson. “Faith-based queer space in Washington, DC: The Metropolitan Community Church-DC and Mount Vernon Square.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 8:2 (2001): 149-168.

Pile, Steve. The Body and the City : Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity. London: Routledge, 1996.

Phillips, Richard. “Writing travel and mapping sexuality,” in J. Duncan and D. Gregory eds. Writes of Passage: Reading Travel Writing. London: Routledge, 1999.

Phillips, Richard; West, Dianne.; Shuttleton, David. eds. De-Centering Sexualities: Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis. London: Routledge, 2000.

Podmore, Julie. “Lesbians in the crowd: Gender, sexuality, and visibility along Montreal’s Boulevard St.-Laurent” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 8 (2001): 333-355.

Prazniak, R. “Race and Gender in the Limits of Place-based Politics.” Development 45:1 (March 2002): 121-125.

Price-Chalita, Patricia. “Spatial Metaphor and the Politics of Empowerment: Mapping a Place for Feminism and Postmodernism in Geography?” Antipode 26:3 (July 1994): 236-254.

Puar, Jasbir; Rushbrook, Dereka; Schein, Louisa. “Sexuality and Space: Queering Geographies of Globalization” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 21 (2003): 383-387.

Puwar, Nirmal. Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Radcliffe, S. A. “Women’s place/El lugar de mujeres. Latin America and the politics of gender identity.” In Keith, M. & S. Pile (eds). Place and the Politics of Identity. London, Routledge, 1993.

Radner, Hilary. “Roaming the City: Proper Women in Improper Places.” Featherstone, Mike & Scott Lash, eds. Spaces of Culture: City – Nation – World. Sage Publications, 1999: 86-100.

Raimondo, Meredith. “Corralling the virus: migratory sexualities and the spread of AIDS in the US media,” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 21 (2003): 389-407.

Rendell, Jane. “The Clubs of St. James’s: places of public patriarchy – exclusivity, domesticity and secrecy.” Journal of Architecture 4:2 (June 1999): 167-189.

Risseeuw, Carla & Kamala Ganesh. Negotiation and Social Space: A Gendered Analysis of Changing Kin and Security Networks in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Sage Publications, 1999.

Rosing, Ina. “The Gender of Space.” Philosophy and Geography 6:2 (August 2003): 189-211.

Ross, K. “Women’s Place in `Male’ Space: Gender and Effect in Parliamentary Contexts.” Parliamentary Affairs 55:1 (1 January 2002): 189-201.

Rushbrook, Dereka. “Cities, Queer Space, and the Cosmopolitan Tourist.” GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 8:1-2 (2002): 183-206.

Rothenberg, Tamar. “And she told two friends: lesbians creating urban social space,” in Bell, David; Valentine, Gill eds. Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexuality. London: Routledge, 1995: 165-181.

Rushbrook, Dereka. “Cities, Queer Space, and the Cosmopolitan Tourist.” GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 8 (2002): 183-206.

Shands, Kerstin. Embracing Space: Spatial Metaphors in Feminist Discourse. Greenwood Press, 1999.

Somerville M. & Hartley L. “Eating Place: postcolonial explorations of embodiment and place.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 21:3 (December 2000): 353-364.

Spain, Daphne. Gendered Spaces. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Spretnak, Charlene. The resurgence of the real: body, nature, and place in a hypermodern world. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

Sugg, Katherine. “Migratory sexualities, diasporic histories, and memory in queer Cuban-American cultural production,” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 21 (2003): 461-477.

Thomas, Mary. Pleasure and propriety: teen girls and the practice of straight space. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space Forthcoming 2004.

Valentine, Gill. “Negotiating and managing multiple sexual identities: lesbian time-space strategies” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 18 (1993): 237-248.

Valentine, Gill. “Renegotiating the heterosexual street: Lesbian productions of space,” in Duncan, Nancy, ed. BodySpace: destablizing geographies of gender and sexuality. Routledge, London and New York, 1996.

Valentine, Gill. “(Hetero)sexing space: lesbian perceptions and experiences of everyday spaces,” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 11 (1999): 395-413.

Valentine, Gill ed. From Nowhere to Everywhere: Lesbian Geographies. New York: Haworth Press, 2000.

Valentine, G. and Skelton, T.L. ”Finding oneself, losing oneself: the lesbian and gay ‘scene’ as a paradoxical space” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27 (2003): 849-866.

Valentine, Gill; Skelton, Tracey; Butler, Ruth. “Coming out and outcomes: negotiating lesbian and gay identities with, and in, the family” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 21 (2003): 479-499.

Waitt, Gordon. “Gay games: performing community out from the closet of the locker room,” Social & Cultural Geography 4 (2003): 167-183.

Waitt, Gordon; Markwell, Kevin. Somewhere Over The Rainbow: Understanding Gay Tourism. Haworth Press, 2005.

Walter, Bronwen. “Irishness, Gender, and Place.” Environment and Planning D-Society & Space 13 (1995): 35 – 50.

Walter, Bronwen. Outsiders inside: whiteness, place, and Irish women. London; New York: Routledge , 2001.

Weightman, Barbara. “Towards a geography of the gay community” Journal of Cultural Geography 1 (1981): 106-112.

Wilton, Robert. “Diminished worlds?: The geography of everyday life with HIV/AIDS” Health and Place 2 (1996): 69-83.

Wincapaw, Celeste. “The virtual spaces of lesbian and bisexual women’s electronic mailing lists” Journal of Lesbian Studies 4 (1999): 45-59.