Woman as Utopia. Against relations of representation |
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Authors: | Dagmar Reichert |
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Institution: | Department of Geography , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , Winterthurerstr. 190, CH‐8057, Zürich, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | The argument of this paper is based on water, i.e. on the metaphor of something that does not have a form, but is forming. Attempting to write herself without representing herself, the author invites the reader to understand her/his self without having to define it. In order to do that the question ‘What IS a woman?’ must be put in question. Then the definite existence of the IS can be turned into a paradoxical (non‐)being like that of Utopia. The space of geography is a space of what IS. Could woman feel at home in such a framework? Or does she inhabit the paradoxical space of Utopia? What would a geography of the Utopia be like? What is the space of the woman? |
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