Borderline bodies

Johnston, Lynda

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Johnston, L. (2002). Borderline bodies. In L. Bondi, and et al. (Eds), Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geographies (pp. 75-89). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher.

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Abstract

This chapter is about borders that are made and broken at gay pride parades. Specifically, I examine the discursive and material borders maintained in tourism discourse. Binary oppositions such as self/other, straight/gay, and tourist/host provide a focus for this chapter. I am interested in where these borders wear thin and threaten to break and disrupt social order. I explore the bodies of gay pride parades because it is bodies such as these that threaten the borders of corporeal acceptability.

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2002

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