‘Falling women’–‘saving angels’: spaces of contested mobility and the production of gender and sexualities within early twentieth-century train stations

Sexualities and gendered intersectionalities

“…In addition to examining how their homelessness affected the ways in which their gender was understood in public spaces, the work also made an important contribution by examining the role of romance in their lives, and how these emotional attachments relate to their strategies for surviving on the streets. In an engaging historical study, Bieri and Gerodetti (2007) paper considered the production of gender, sexuality and space in relation to women's contested mobilities within and through railway stations in the early twentieth-century. They focused on stations as sites where different gendered and sexed bodies, social and spatial contexts intersected in early twentieth-century Switzerland.…”

Disciplined mobility and carceral geography: prisoner transport in Russia

“…The fact that women are sent long distances to serve their sentences has impacts on the level of communication they are able to maintain with their family, and the nature of their rehabilitation experience in prison, which are explored elsewhere (see Moran et al 2009). Although our empirical material relates to female prisoners, our intention here is not to identify etap as a form of gendered mobility (Bieri and Gerodotti 2007; Cresswell and Uteng 2008; Law 1999), although the existing infrastructure ensures that women are far more likely to be incarcerated at a significant distance from their home region. The focus is on the system of penal transportation, through which all prisoners are delivered to the institutions in which they serve their custodial sentences, and we will first describe the logistics of these journeys, before presenting reported experiences of them, and then thinking through the ways in which consideration of these experiences can assist both in conceptualising forced mobilities and in highlighting mobility in the carceral context.…”

Papers 98/1. Número complet

“…Fan èmfasi en la construcció de la sexualitat africana i en les vinculacions amb el VIH, reivindicant una concepció més holística de la sexualitat contra un discurs medicalitzat (McIlwaine i Datta, 2004). D'altra banda, Bieri i Gerodetti, partint de la consideració que «les percepcions i construccions de les bones i males sexualitats generitzades estan sempre inherentment espacialitzades» (Bieri i Gerodetti, 2007: 230), analitzen com la mobilitat de les dones i les prostitutes van acabar simbolitzant, històricament, les llibertats perilloses de la ciutat, que trencaven amb la seva respectabilitat i tenien com a efecte prohibicions limitadores de la seva llibertat de moviment (Bieri i Gerodetti, 2007).…”

“…Gough i Franch també analitzen amb detall les restriccions que suposa per a les noies de Recife aportant, com a dada afegida, que qui les controla és la família, com als nois, amb la diferència que, quan es casen, és el marit qui continua controlant els seus moviments a l'espai públic. D'altra banda, Bieri i Gerodetti expliquen com les narratives sobre la ciutat la conceben com a plena de riscos, en oposició al món rural, que quedaria exempt de perill per a les noies joves (Bieri i Gerodetti, 2007).…”