differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies articles from September 1993

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies archives from September 1993

Anatomical realism and social investigation in early nineteenth-century Manchester. (England)
September 22, 1993... "Our age is pre-eminently the age of great cities," Robert Vaughan proclaimed in 1843 (1). If by "great" Vaughan meant populous, he was merely echoing what by 1840 had become a commonplace: the three censuses published since 1801 showed a...

Bodies in space/subjects in the city: psychopathologies of modern urbanism.
September 22, 1993... The following essay is a part of a larger work on the construction of the modern spatial imaginary entitled "Psychopathologies of Modern Space." This project is an attempt to write what in Walter Benjamin's terms might have been entitled "A...

"Errances" and memories in Marguerite Duras's colonial cities. (woman novelist)
September 22, 1993... The story of my life doesn't exist. Does not exist. There's never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it's not true, there was no one. (Duras, ...

The city, the everyday, and boredom: the case of Sherlock Holmes.
September 22, 1993... Perhaps nowhere has the city been more of a central focus than in the writing of the Continental theorists of the everyday. For philosophers and sociologists such as Henri Lefebvre, writers such as Maurice Blanchot, cultural anthropologists...

Placing 'Rosemary's Baby.' (novel)
September 22, 1993... Have you had the eerie feeling that you are not being let alone? That somebody unknown and unseen is spying on you? You were not imagining things. (Myron Brenton, The Privacy Invaders [1964]) Do you realize what has...

Manila's new metropolitan form. (flyover construction in Manila, Philippines)
September 22, 1993... I have always experienced Metro Manila as a generally flat city. Ostensibly because of flooding problems, it has no underground transport system, nor do the majority of its houses have basements. With the exception of commercial office...

Things, common/places, passages of the port city: on Hong Kong and Hong Kong author Leung Ping-kwan. (Chinese poet)
September 22, 1993... "What is going to happen to Hong Kong after 1997?" In the past few years, as Hong Kong's peculiar colonial fate gains international attention, this is the question I often encounter in conversations. The point of the present essay is not to...