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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  2021, Vol. 36 Issue (4): 44-52    DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2021.04.006
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GENDER GEOGRAPHIES OF URBAN MODERNITY: THE PREHISTORY AND THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF FEMINIST GEOGRAPHIES
LI Lei-lei
School of Media and Communication, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

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Abstract  This paper concerns the gendered geographies from the perspective of the historical-geographical materialism, situated in the great transformation of Paris in 19c under the creative destruction of Haussmann. Exploring the relationship between the production of space by the power-subject and the gendered places related to women, gender, class, etc. in either private/family space, urban public space, or liminal space such as Arcade Passage in Paris, the author attempts to figure out the connection of this prehistory of 19c to the whole geneology of feminist geography launched in 1970s and its future research direction. The study holds that:1) The creative destruction of Haussmann to Paris, based on the enlightenment rationality and the masculinity of modernist urban planning, divided the urban space of Paris into a dual structure consisting of the urban core and the suburban edge, thus realizing the spatial segregation between the bourgeoisie and the working class, and constructing the internal differentiation of women fractioned by their class status. 2) The development of industrialization and urbanization of Paris had strengthened the spatial division between the family sphere and the public sphere, as well as the establishment of family gender regime under the traditional patriarchy highlighting the biological sex essentialism and regarding women only as the maternal role in family. 3) The internal contradiction of urban modernity produced the third kind of gender geography in liminal space different from the spaces of Paris with "two kinds of spaces and classes in one city". 4) Although this paper discusses the gender geographies of urban modernity occurred about two hundred years ago, this "obsolete" research is still very "contemporary" connecting the pre-modern, the modern, the postmodern, and even our 21st century future.
Key wordsurban modernity      Paris      feminist geography      liminal space      gender regime     
Received: 26 July 2020     
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LI Lei-lei. GENDER GEOGRAPHIES OF URBAN MODERNITY: THE PREHISTORY AND THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF FEMINIST GEOGRAPHIES[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2021, 36(4): 44-52.
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