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dc.contributor.authorPettersson, Lin Elinor 
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-17T12:57:05Z
dc.date.available2014-12-17T12:57:05Z
dc.date.created2014
dc.date.issued2014-12-17
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10630/8595
dc.descriptionAEDEAN stands for Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Founded in Seville in 1976, it has a current membership of about 1.200, which includes university professors, lecturers and graduate students both from Spanish universities and abroad. AEDEAN has held an annual conference since 1977, each year in a different town and organised by the local university. The 38th AEDEAN Conference was organized by the Department of “Filología Moderna” at the University of Alcalá de Henares.es_ES
dc.description.abstractFeminist Geography is a relatively new discipline within Human Geography that undertakes the study of space, place and gender as scholars try to work out how these categories intersect in the production of social identities by bringing together three main issues, namely; the spatialising of identities, the contextualising of the meaning of place to gender and the intersection between gender and other socially constructed categories. Consequently, female subjectivity is a key concern for feminist geographers as they address issues related to woman’s consciousness—how she perceives her own role, and how that role contributes to her identity and meaning. In this paper, I propose that Feminist Geography, as a separate discipline, sets a context-specific framework for research looking into issues concerning place, space and gender. As Kofman and Peake have demonstrated “[Feminist Geography] explore[s] the nature of gender relations, the construction of femininity and masculinity and the relationship between patriarchal and class structures in time and place” (314). Similarly, feminist geographer Doreen Massey draws a parallel between spatial control and social control of identity highlighting how “the limitation of women’s mobility in terms both of identity and space, has been in some cultural contexts a crucial means of subordination. Moreover the two things – limitation on mobility in space, the attempted consignment/confinement to particular places on the one hand, and the limitation on identity on the other – have been crucially related” (179). Taking this as a starting point, my aim is to analyse neo-Victorian contestations of the public/private dichotomy where space is a central constituent in the formation of female identity rather than being a mere backdrop. By taking a closer look at the re-imagination of female urban characters I will attempt to demonstrate how, on the one hand, they trespass imposed spatial limits, and on the other hand, challenge gender roles by inverting the public/private ideology of separate spheres. As Pollock remarks, “[public] territories of the bourgeois city were however not only gendered on a male/female polarity. They became sites for the negotiation of gendered class identities and class gender positions” (70). Accordingly, neo-Victorian novels contextualise gender issues in urban spaces to explore the social construction of space and gender. Taken this, I propose that women’s presence in the streets defied the limitations that were imposed by patriarchal normativity and developed, what Parsons refers to as, “a particular mode of female urban vision” (6). By drawing on the work by feminist geographers, I hope to prove how Victorian women managed to destabilise the public/private dichotomy and assert an alternative female identity to the one inscribed by the Victorian cult of domesticity. Subsequently, I will explore how the spatialising of female identities is portrayed in neo-Victorian literature as mobility and agency converge within the subjective experience acquired through participation in the public sphere to negotiate independence as well as public and private spaces.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Teches_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.subjectGeografía humanaes_ES
dc.subjectMujereses_ES
dc.subject.otherFeminist Geographyes_ES
dc.subject.otherSpatialising Identitieses_ES
dc.subject.otherGenderes_ES
dc.subject.otherSpacees_ES
dc.subject.otherNeo-Victorianismes_ES
dc.subject.otherCityscapees_ES
dc.titleFeminist Geography and the Cityscape in Neo-Victorian Literaturees_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectes_ES
dc.centroFacultad de Filosofía y Letrases_ES
dc.relation.eventtitleXXXVIII Congreso de AEDEANes_ES
dc.relation.eventplaceAlcalá de Henareses_ES
dc.relation.eventdate12-14 Nov 2014es_ES


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