Gender, Public Space and Resistance

Gender Issues and Public Health.

Gender is one of the most important considerations in public health research and program implementation. Basic issues such as protecting women from violence, upholding their rights to property and equality in access to health, education, employment, and political participation are important to society and for public health. Gender inequality exists both within and outside the health system and ...

Exclusion and Belonging in Urban Public and Quasi-Public Space

Public space – which comprises streets and sidewalks, parks and plazas – is one of the justly celebrated aspects of cities. If cities are rich arenas of social diversity and crucibles of civic participation, it is their public spaces which facilitate the coming together of diverse populations since there is ‘a presumption that within these spaces we will, necessarily, encounter “others” in all ...

Representation of Gender and Space in Historical Texts from the Ilkhanid Period

Many texts in various fields were written in the Ilkhanid period which by examining them, it would be possible to obtain a clear understanding of the social and political situation of the period in question. Three historical texts will be discussed in this research which narrate political history of the Mongols: Tārikh-e Jahāngoshāy-e Jovaini as a first document written in early Ilkhanid period...

The Social Construction of Space and Gender

Over the past 10 years two concepts of central significance in the social sciences have come up for rediscussion: ‘space’ and ‘gender’. Today the two concepts are seen as relational, as a production process based on relation and demarcation. Gender and space alike are a provisional result of an – invariably temporal – process of attribution and arrangement that both forms and reproduces structu...

Gender in Psychoanalytic Space (review)