10th Anniversary Address For a feminist geography of ambivalence

1 January 2004

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Gender, Place & Culture

Vol. 11 (1) , 3-15
https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369042000188521

Abstract

This article argues for and invokes an ambivalent feminist spatiality. Drawing on the idea that the position of feminist academic is a contradiction in terms, together with my ambivalence about presenting the Gender, Place and Culture 10th Anniversary Lecture, I illustrate ways in which feminists successfully inhabit unresolved tensions about academic authority. I then explore four themes in feminist politics—equality, autonomy, difference and deconstruction—showing how each contains internal tensions that are held as ambivalences through the spatialities to which they appeal. The two sections of the essay deploy different voices with a view to generating space for ambivalence.

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