space & gender

diane celia hodges (dchodges who-is-at interchg.ubc.ca)
Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:44:18 -0800

I think I mis-used my phrasing about gender and spatial differentiation -
I am aware of the cognitive studies which focus on mental-spatial abilities,

I was speaking more to the ways we walk, move, sit, stand, greet, huddle,
run, throw, reach out,

the ways we sit on busses or trains, the ways we interact in crowds, at
public gatherings, private gatherings,

the ways women walk at night, and the ways men walk at night;

the ways boys play at lunch, and the ways girls play - who takes up more
space, and who folds their bodies up so they won't take up any space? or

the ways "tomboys" interact with space as children, or the "faggy" boys who
are taunted so mercilessly, their uses of physical space are
significant,...
these interactions shape the spaces our bodies fill, the ways we move, and
the ways we perceive the movement of others.

these are the kinds of spaces I was thinking. I think these profoundly
effect emotional
development.
diane

"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right." Ani Difranco
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