Homeless women Don't wear Prada: The geographies of beauty standards and the bodies of homeless women

IF 3.1 1区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Harriet Earle-Brown
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Abstract

Mainstream society expects women to look and behave in particular ways. Women are expected to adhere to conventional Western beauty standards of grooming, fashionable clothing, and hygiene. They are also traditionally associated with the home, homemaking and being indoors. The bodies of homeless women transgress in both ways: through lacking the resources to engage in the body work which would allow them to adhere to the beauty standards; and through lacking a home and predominantly being outdoors. This in turn, results in particular stigmatization for homeless women, who have unique experiences of homelessness. A lack of gendered literature has left many of these experiences underdiscussed, and even those approaches which do focus on gender, rarely account for other social differences such as race, age, and sexuality. This paper extends existing debates by arguing that framing homelessness through beauty standards and embodiment enables a new and more nuanced understanding of homelessness, which is not only gendered, but also allows for the acknowledgement of other intersectional difference, such as race, age, sexuality, and disability. It concludes that future research into homelessness should not only account for gender but should take an intersectional approach to consider the ways that homelessness is not one universal experience.

无家可归的女人不穿普拉达:美丽标准的地理位置和无家可归的女人的身体
主流社会期望女性以特定的方式看待和行为。女性应该遵守西方传统的美容标准,包括仪容整洁、衣着时尚和卫生。传统上,它们也与家庭、家政和待在室内联系在一起。无家可归妇女的身体在两个方面都违反了规定:缺乏资源来从事使她们能够坚持美的标准的身体工作;因为没有家,大部分时间都在户外。这反过来又导致无家可归的妇女受到特别的污名化,她们有独特的无家可归经历。由于性别文学的缺乏,许多这些经历都没有得到充分的讨论,即使是那些关注性别的方法,也很少考虑到种族、年龄和性别等其他社会差异。本文扩展了现有的争论,认为通过美丽标准和体现来构建无家可归,可以对无家可归有一个新的、更细致的理解,这不仅是性别的,而且还允许承认其他交叉差异,如种族、年龄、性别和残疾。它的结论是,未来对无家可归的研究不仅应该考虑到性别,而且应该采取交叉的方法来考虑无家可归不是一种普遍经历的方式。
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Geography Compass
Geography Compass GEOGRAPHY-
CiteScore
6.00
自引率
6.50%
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61
期刊介绍: Unique in its range, Geography Compass is an online-only journal publishing original, peer-reviewed surveys of current research from across the entire discipline. Geography Compass publishes state-of-the-art reviews, supported by a comprehensive bibliography and accessible to an international readership. Geography Compass is aimed at senior undergraduates, postgraduates and academics, and will provide a unique reference tool for researching essays, preparing lectures, writing a research proposal, or just keeping up with new developments in a specific area of interest.
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