Geography and the construction of difference
Geography and the construction of difference
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地理与差异的构建
DOI：
10.1080/09663699408721198
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发表时间：
1994
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
S. Hanson
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作者：
G. Pratt;S. Hanson
越来越多的证据表明，妇女之间存在“横向敌对”：许多妇女沿着阶级、种族、性、年龄和/或与殖民主义的关系等轴线确认自己的身份。在最近的女权主义写作中，地理空间，地点和位置被用作重新思考女权主义亲和力的工具，这种亲和力不会消除或破坏“差异”。我们回顾当代使用的地理隐喻和警告过度强调位移作为一个关键的女权主义立场的隐喻。我们认为，地理位置必须在紧张局势中举行的理想位移。我们通过对当代马萨诸塞州伍斯特的妇女和工作的案例研究来发展这一点。伍斯特的妇女在很大程度上扎根于当地，这是在妇女之间建立差异的一个工具。我们认为，在特定的地方建设的女性身份的研究抵消了女权主义僵化的妇女之间的差异，…
Abstract There is growing evidence of ‘horizontal hostilities’ among women: many women are affirming their identities along axes of class, race, sexuality, age and/or relationship to colonialism. Within recent feminist writing, geography—space, place and location—has been used as a vehicle for rethinking a feminist affinity that does not erase or undermine ‘difference’. We review contemporary uses of geographical metaphors and caution against an excessive emphasis on displacement as a metaphor for a critical feminist stance. We argue that geographies of placement must be held in tension with an ideal of displacement. We develop this point through a case study of women and work in contemporary Worcester, Massachusetts. Women in Worcester are very much rooted in place and this is a vehicle for the construction of differences across women. We argue that studies of the construction of feminine identities in particular places counteract the current tendency within feminism to rigidify differences among women a...