Embodiment, power and the politics of mobility: the case of female tramps and hobos

被引：119

作者：

Cresswell, T ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Univ Wales, Inst Geog & Earth Sci, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, Dyfed, Wales

来源：

TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS | 1999年 / 24卷 / 02期

关键词：

tramps; United States; embodiment; mobility; gender; moral panic;

D O I：

10.1111/j.0020-2754.1999.00175.x

中图分类号：

P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];

学科分类号：

0705 ; 070501 ;

摘要：

Mobility and travel have recently attracted the interest of many people, both inside and outside geography. This interest has often focused on issues of gender. Mobile women, in particular, have been seen to be indicative of wider social and cultural themes of power, exclusion, resistance and emancipation. In this paper, I consider the gendered dimensions of a moral panic in the United States between 1869 and 1940, known as the 'tramp scare'. I argue that the construction of the panic around threats to women's bodies and the actual experience of female tramps illuminates a clearly gendered and embodied politics of mobility.

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页码：175 / 192

页数：18