Space invaders
Subtitle: race, gender and bodies out of place
By: Nirmal Puwar.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- Great Britain; Power (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- Case studies; Sex discrimination against women -- Great Britain; Sex discrimination against women -- Great Britain -- Case studies; Race discrimination -- Great Britain; Race discrimination -- Great Britain -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "Increasingly, women and minorities are entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. The spaces they come to occupy are not empty or neutral, but are imbued with history and meaning. This book interrogates the pernicious, subtle but nonetheless widely held view that certain bodies are naturally entitled to certain spaces, while others are not." "Drawing on case studies from within the nation state, including Westminster and Whitehall, the art world, academia and everyday life, this book uncovers the hidden processes that undermine female and/or racialized bodies in spaces marked by masculinity and whiteness. How are positions of authority racialized and gendered? How do people manage their femininity and/or blackness while in a predominantly white male context? How do spaces become naturalized or normalized, and what does it mean when they are disrupted?"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.