Constructing Difference in Public Spaces: Race, Class, and Gender as Interlocking Systems

Ruddick, Susan

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.17.2.132

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“…In other words, social relations of difference are not merely additive, instead the experience of one transforms the experience of the others. Taken together, gender,`race'/ethnicity, class and so on form interlocking, relational systems of oppression and privilege within which there are a multiplicity of identities, which in turn gain meaning in relation to other identities (Spelman, 1988;hooks, 1989;Hill-Collins, 1990;McDowell, 1991;Kobayashi & Peake, 1994;Ruddick, 1996). In this paper we explore the experiential pluralities of women in paid domestic work, keeping in mind hooks' words that`interlocking systems of domination ¼ acknowledge the diversity and complexity of female experience, of (their) relationship to power and domination ' (1989, p. 21).…”

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Domestic Distinctions: Constructing difference among paid domestic workers in Toronto

Stiell¹,

England²

1997

Gender, Place & Culture

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Domestic Distinctions: Constructing difference among paid domestic workers in Toronto

Stiell¹,

England²

1997

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“…Les relations hiérarchiques entre les sexes sont donc imprimées dans l'espace public (McDowell, 1999), et un espace public ouvert et accessible à tous n'a jamais existé, pas plus hier qu'aujourd'hui (Ruddick, 1996). Dans cette approche, beaucoup d'auteur(e)s affi rment en effet que les villes, et en particulier leurs espaces publics, se sont depuis toujours développées en régulant le contrôle social et en maintenant inchangés les critères de reproduction sociale et de domination masculine (Bondi et Rose, 2003).…”

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“…Il est un vecteur puissant de la construction des cultures et des identités, individuelles et collectives (Di Méo, 2004 ;Zukin, 1988), ainsi que des différences (Pratt et Hanson, 1994). Les identités sexuelles devraient donc, en théorie, pouvoir s'y construire et y être éprouvées (Bell et Valentine, 1995 ;Duncan, 1996 ;Ruddick, 1996 ;Wilson, 1991). Les pratiques de l'espace public parisien des lesbiennes interrogées soulignent à quel point les limites à l'acceptation et à la célébration de l'altérité dans l'espace public sont présentes.…”

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La ville négociée : les homosexuel(le)s dans l’espace public parisien

Cattan

Leroy

2010

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La ville, espace privilégié de la libération sexuelle, donne à l’homosexualité depuis quelques décennies un droit à la visibilité. L’espace public, en tant que scène de rencontre avec l’altérité, permet de mettre en question avec le plus d’acuité ce droit à la ville pour tous. Cette recherche analyse les pratiques et les représentations de l’espace public des populations homosexuelles dans Paris. L’objectif est de comprendre comment s’expriment et s’acceptent les différentes orientations sexuelles dans l’ensemble de l’espace urbain visible, contribuant aux réflexions théoriques sur les fondements mêmes de l’identité de la ville moderne. Une méthode spécifique est élaborée afin de développer une approche réellement spatiale du phénomène. Notre recherche montre que l’orientation sexuelle participe de l’inégal accès à un espace public hétéronormé et que cette inégalité est « naturalisée » dans les comportements. Elle conduit à affirmer le rôle moteur des quartiers gais dans la construction des identités homosexuelles et l’importance de leur appropriation. Cette appropriation ne signifie pas la privatisation de ces espaces, mais constitue un outil susceptible de renforcer la visibilité d’un groupe stigmatisé et marginalisé à cause de son orientation sexuelle.

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“…It is underpinned by a recognition of the salience of gender 1 in shaping women's experiences of space, fear and safety. These themes have been covered extensively in feminist literature and research which focuses on how gender structures, sexual violence, harassment, ideology and discourses of victimisation perpetuate fears and render public space differential and problematic for women (Gordon et al 1980;Riger and Gordon, 1981;McDowell, 1983;Davidoff and Hall, 1987;Kelly, 1987;Stanko, 1987;Painter, 1992;Ruddick, 1996;Kelly and Radford, 1996;Skeggs, 1999;Bondi, 1998;Pain, 2001). However, one cannot assume that all women experience gender in the same way and recognising 'difference' (Maynard, 1994(Maynard, , 2002 amongst women is central to understanding how gender interlocks with other identities to produce diverse gender experiences.…”

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Women students’ perceptions of crime and safety: negotiating fear and risk in an English post-industrial landscape

Wattis

Green

Radford

2011

Gender, Place & Culture

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CitationWattis, L., Green, E. E. and Radford, J. (2011) This paper explores safety concerns and fear of crime amongst women students attending university in a large town in the north-east of England. It acknowledges that gender as a social category is problematic; however, the paper is grounded in recognition of its significance in shaping experiences of fear, safety and space. The main aim is to explore how gender intersects with student identity/ies in a specific local context.The paper draws upon qualitative data from doctoral research which explored the crime and fear experiences of women students studying in a town bearing all of the hallmarks of industrial decline. It evidences powerful representations of place with respondents drawing heavily on the town's working-class culture and deindustrialisation in their reading of the locale. In addition, respondents linked the town unequivocally to crime and disorder, and identified the criminal threat as originating from local people. In this way, fears were frequently locally focused, linking to a fear of place and the risks associated with the student identity. This highlights that women's fears and spatial negotiation cannot be read exclusively in terms of gender -in this context they are frequently shaped by 'studenthood' and the dynamics of class and locality. At the same time however, the paper reveals how the local intersects with gender to shape experiences of space, fear and safety, as well as the transformative effects of ethnicity at its intersection with gender, locality and the student identity.Keywords: Identity; students; safety; fear; local context. IntroductionThis article explores women's fears as students in a post-industrial, urban locality where crime and disorder were highly visible features of the social landscape. It is underpinned by a recognition of the salience of gender 1 in shaping women's experiences of space, fear and safety. These themes have been covered extensively in feminist literature and research which focuses on how gender structures, sexual violence, harassment, ideology and discourses of victimisation perpetuate fears and render public space differential and problematic for women (Gordon et al.

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Constructing Difference in Public Spaces: Race, Class, and Gender as Interlocking Systems

Cited by 240 publications

References 23 publications

Domestic Distinctions: Constructing difference among paid domestic workers in Toronto

Domestic Distinctions: Constructing difference among paid domestic workers in Toronto

La ville négociée : les homosexuel(le)s dans l’espace public parisien

Women students’ perceptions of crime and safety: negotiating fear and risk in an English post-industrial landscape

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