|
by: Kerstin W. Shands
Amazon.com's Price: $110.95 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 11 to 13 days
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 809.3353
EAN: 9780313297281
ISBN: 0313297282
Label: Greenwood Press
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: November 30, 1999
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Sales Rank: 1349083
Studio: Greenwood Press
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
While there is a predominant celebration of mobility and instability metaphors in contemporary feminist discourse, concepts of home, rest or dwelling are frequently left unproblematized and perceived as simple, static and lacking in development potential. This study finds that despite the countless geographic and ideological overlappings in feminist thought, two basic positions may be discerned. There is a fashionable celebration of what the author calls a resisting or 'bracing' space, a 'site of resistance' of constant travel where all comforts of home, unity and dwelling are programmatically to be withstood. Instead of privileging travel in a divisively dualistic gesture, the author proposes that both travel and dwelling metaphors be radically and fruitfully deconstructed and reconstructed, and visualizes a parabolic travel-in-dwelling concept of 'embracing' space. While feminism's hypertransgressive movement metaphors may be fuelled by fantasies of reaching a new kind of masculinizing, transcendent dream of everywhere which denies material limitations and functions and which continues to undervalue femininity, the 'embracing' varieties of space, according to this study, are both more promising and more necessary today.
|
