Intimate Cities: Body, Gender, and the Politics of Intimacy in Urban Spaces
Journal: Journal of Gender Studies
Cities are often imagined as spaces of anonymity, freedom, and mobility. Yet for gendered, queer, migrant, and marginalised bodies, urban spaces are also sites of intense regulation, surveillance, negotiation, and vulnerability. The fabric of everyday urban existence is woven through the perpetual negotiation of corporeal proximity, manifesting across a diverse topography of social frames, ranging from the hyper-vis…