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The gendered body during Covid-19: views from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan - Introduction to themed section

Wood, Rachel; McCann, Hannah

Authors

Hannah McCann



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Abstract

The collection of papers we have put together for this special themed section originally emerged from a desire to explore how the rapid and wholescale transformation of everyday spaces brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic might change, challenge and shift experiences and understandings of the gendered body. Since 2020, we have witnessed and experienced the dramatic alteration of everyday mobilities and a concurrent reconfiguration of spatial and embodied relations. The pandemic, and responses to it, has transformed the locations in which subjects routinely situate themselves, and the quotidian bodily practices they participate in, with immediate and lasting impact. Such a moment called for a revisiting of established theoretical and methodological paradigms in feminist geography – many of which developed from within the pages of this journal – which understand the relationship between space and the gendered body to be a mutually constitutive one. If the gendered body is understood as a processual assemblage shaped by the spaces within which it is formed, what do such radical spatial reconfigurations of embodied relations mean for gendered subjects? These papers, then, represent an opportunity to revisit and reflect upon core debates about gender, embodiment, and space in feminist geography, understanding the pandemic via a gendered lens.

Citation

Wood, R., & McCann, H. (in press). The gendered body during Covid-19: views from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan - Introduction to themed section. Gender, Place and Culture, 31(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2023.2276792

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 26, 2023
Online Publication Date Nov 2, 2023
Deposit Date Nov 16, 2023
Journal Gender, Place & Culture
Print ISSN 0966-369X
Electronic ISSN 1360-0524
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 31
Issue 1
Pages 1-8
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2023.2276792
Keywords Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Cultural Studies; Demography; Gender Studies
Additional Information Peer Review Statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope.; Aim & Scope: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=cgpc20; Published: 2023-11-02