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As theorists have begun using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world, it is important to reflect on their work, and its impact on our thoughts on space. This revealing book explores the work of a wide range of prolific social theorists. Included contributions from an impressive range of renowned geographical writers, each examine the work of one writer - ranging from early this century to contemporary writers.
Among the writers discussed are Georg Simmel, Mikhail Bakhtin, Gilles Deleuze, Helene Cixous, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Lacan, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault and Franz Fanon. Ideal for those interested in the 'spatial turn' in social and cultural theory, this fascinating book asks what role space plays in the work of such theorists, what difference (if any) it makes to their concepts, and what difference such an appreciation makes to the way we might think about space.
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Jimmie D King
reviewed Thinking space on May 12, 2014
Thinking space
This landmark 1992 book, edited by Krentz, is for all those people wishing to understand why women read romance. There are several good discussions here and one can learn (or reminisce) about the advancement of this genre of past authoresses through analyses and debates of various essayists. However, IMHO, the best line in the book comes from Daphne Clair in her submission of 'Sweet Subversions'.
Half a century later, in the very teeth of women's liberation, Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower and Rosemary Rogers's Sweet Savage Love generated a flood of immensely successful rape-romances that enraged feminists, created guilt in many avid readers, and were cited as perpetuating the notion that women really do like being forced. (We might assume then that men, major consumers of thrillers, westerns, and detective fiction, enjoy being beaten up, tortured, shot, stabbed dragged by galloping horses, and thrown out of moving vehicles.)
That last line was so good I had to e-mailed it to my sister-in-law when I informed her that romances, with its ever expanding sub-genres, comprise 55% of the current paperback market. I don't favor rape scenes in my romance books, I think because I identify too much with the heroines, and I have no desire to re-read Sweet Savage Love. However, there are notable exceptions where the author is so talented she can pull it off (as I mentioned in in my review of The English Heiress by Roberta Gellis). But, alas, now fortified with Ms. Clair's words, I no longer have to feel guilty for having that awfully embarrassing wonderful 'bodice-ripper' The Flame and the Flower on my 'all-time-favorites' bookshelf. What an enormous relief! :-)
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