Gendered Mobility: Travel as a Rite of Passage

Lena Ganesh

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2017, vol. 24, issue 2, 145-170

Abstract: This article looks at aspects of gendered spatial access and appropriation to understand how spatial dynamics and mobility can be comprehended from a study of and observations on the life experiences of women videographers of VideoSEWA in Ahmedabad, India. The roaming subject, socially defined by class, caste, age and other factors is equally a socially located person who is a traveller. Using the concepts of separation, liminality and re-assimilation (Turner, 1967) through the prism of heterotopic space (Foucault, 1967), this article interrogates the widening of women’s local spaces to translocal ones, their increased radii of mobility, the transference of spatial experiences to the local spheres and the contribution of all of these to the making of physical spatial claims by women. It highlights the importance of an intersectional analysis for understanding relationships between gender, space, mobility and resistance.

Keywords: Gender; physical mobility; Gujarat; travel; videography by women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0971521517697877

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