'Falling women'-'saving angels': Spaces of contested mobility and the production of gender and sexualities within early twentieth-century train stations

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-234

  Bieri, Sabin ^a   Gerodetti, Natalia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender; Heterosexuality; Internationalism; Mobility; Prostitution; Space

Indexed keywords

GENDER; MOBILITY; PROSTITUTION; SEXUALITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 34547577527     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: 14701197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360701360113     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Agustín, L. (2003) A migrant world of services. Social Politics, 10, pp. 377-396.
2. Agustín, L. (2005) At home in the street: Questioning the desire to help and save. Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity, pp. 67-82. Routledge, New York
3. Bartley, P. (1998) Preventing prostitution. The Ladies' Association for the Care and Protection of Young Girls in Birmingham during the years 1887-1914. Women's History Review, 7, pp. 37-60.
4. Bauman, Z. (1993) Postmodern Ethics, Routledge, London
5. (1995) Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexuality, Routledge, London
6. Berlant, L. and Warner, M. (1998) Sex in public. Critical Inquiry, 24, pp. 547-566.
7. Binnie, J. (2004) The Globalization of Sexuality, Sage, London
8. Binnie, J. and Valentine, G. (1999) Geographies of sexuality - a review of progress. Progress in Human Geography, 23, pp. 175-187.
9. Brown, M. (2000) Closet Space. Geography of Metaphor from the Body to the Globe, Routledge, London
10. Cresswell, T. (1997) Imagining the nomad: Mobility and the postmodern primitive. Space and Social Theory, pp. 360-382. Blackwell, Oxford
11. Domosh, M. and Seager, J. (2001) Putting Women in Place, Guilford Press, New York
12. Earner-Byrne, L. (2003) The Boat to England: An Analysis of the Official Reactions to the Emigration of Single Expectant Irishwomen to Britain, 1922-1972. Irish Economic and Social History Journal, pp. 52-70.
13. Edensor, T. (2000) Moving through the city. City Visions, pp. 121-140. Pearson Education, Harlow
14. Gerodetti, N. (2004) Lay Experts: Women's Social Purity Groups and the Politics of Sexuality in late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Switzerland. Women's History Review, 13:4, pp. 585-610.
15. Foucault, M. (1980) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, Harvester, Brighton
16. Frank, S. (2003) Stadtplanung im Geschlechterkampf. Stadt und Geschlecht in der Grossstadtentwicklung des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Leske & Budrich, Opladen
17. Gerodetti, N. and Bieri, S. (2006) (Female hetero) Sexualities in transition. Train stations as gateways. Feminist Theory, 7, pp. 79-88.
18. Hengartner, T. (1999) Forschungsfeld Stadt. Zur Geschichte der volkskundlichen Erforschung städtischer Lebensformen, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin
19. Holloway, L. and Hubbard, P. (2001) People and Place. The Extraordinary Geographies of Everyday Life, Prentice Hall, Harlow
20. Howell, P. (2004) Sexuality, sovereignty and space: Law government and the geography of prostitution in colonial Gibraltar. Social History, 29, pp. 444-464.
21. Hubbard, P. (1997) Red-light districts and toleration zones: Geographies of female street prostitution in England and Wales. Area, 29, pp. 129-140.
22. Käppeli, A.-M. (1990) Sublime croisade: Ethique et politique du féminisme protestant, 1875-1928, Editions Zoé, Genève
23. Knopp, L. (1992) Sexuality and the spatial dynamics of capitalism. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 10, pp. 651-669.
24. Lauria, M. and Knopp, L. (1985) Towards an analysis of the role of gay communities in the urban renaissance. Urban Geography, 6, pp. 152-169.
25. Mesmer, B. (1988) Ausgeklammert-Eingeklammert: Frauen und Frauenorganisationen in der Schweiz des 19. Jahrhunderts, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel
26. Mitchell, D. (2000) Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction, Blackwell, Oxford
27. Mort, F. (2003) The sexual geographies of the city. A Companion to the City, pp. 307-315. Blackwell, Malden, MA
28. Phillips, R. (2000) Imagined geographies and sexuality politics: The city, the country and the age of consent. De-centering Sexualities: Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis, pp. 102-124. Routledge, London
29. Pratt, G. (2004) Working Feminism, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
30. Puenzieux, D. and Ruckstuhl, B. (1994) Medizin, Moral und Sexualität: Die Bekämpfung der Geschlechtskrankheiten Syphillis und Gonorrhöe in Zürich 1870-1920, Chronos, Zürich
31. Richards, J. and MacKenzie, J. (1986) The Railway Station: A Social History, Oxford University Press, Oxford
32. Rose, G. (2001) Visual Methodologies. An Introduction to the Analysis of Visual Material, Sage, London
33. Ryan, L. (2003) Moving spaces and changing places: Irish women's memories of emigration to Britain in the 1930s. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29, pp. 67-82.
34. (2004) Wertes Fräulein, was kosten Sie? Prostitution in Zürich 1875-1925, hier+jetzt, Baden
35. Schenker, H.M. (1996) Women's and children's quarters in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Gender, Place and Culture, 3, pp. 293-308.
36. Scott, J. (1913) Railway Romance and Other Essays, Hodder & Stoughton, London
37. Stutz, W. (1983) Bahnhöfe der Schweiz: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, Orell Füssli, Zürich
38. Summers, A. (2001) Gaps in the record: Hidden internationalisms. History Workshop Journal, 52, pp. 217-227.
39. Urban StudieS (2004) Special Issue: Sex and the city: social and economic explorations in urban sexuality. Urban Studies, 41:9, pp. 1631-1857.
40. Urry, J. (2000) Sociology Beyond Societies. Mobilities for the Twenty-first Century, Routledge, London
41. Valentine, G. (1993) (Hetero)sexing space: Lesbian perceptions and experiences of everyday spaces. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 11, pp. 395-413.
42. Valentine, G. (1996) (Re)negotiating the heterosexual street. BodySpace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality, pp. 146-155. Routledge, London
43. Van Drenth, A. (2002) The city and the self. The case of girls' protection in the Netherlands around 1900. Educational Review, 54, pp. 125-132.
44. (2005) Spaces of Masculinities, Routledge, London
45. Walkowitz, J. (1992) City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London, Virago, London
46. Wendt, B.J. (1995) Mädchen, in fremder Stadt suchet Rat bei der Bahnhofsmission. Frankfurter Rundschau, p. 14.