Walking in the city: urban space, stories, and gender
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This paper outlines a feminist reading of Michel de Certeau's work on urban space and narrative in The Practice of Everyday Life. De Certeau offers a persuasive, highly poetic theoretical framework for understanding the production of urban space and the way it is experienced – and ‘written’ – through the everyday practices of a city’s inhabitants. The role of sexual difference in the production of this space is somewhat underdeveloped, however. In response to this gap, and with the help of Elizabeth Grosz’s essay Cities bodies, I develop a feminist analysis of the urban subjectivity implied in his work.
Source: Gender forum
Author: Collie, Natalie
Language: English
Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W28658206