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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a much needed volume reflecting on feminist movements of the past to inform the future. As we face our contemporary era, Currans's volume is urgent and pressing."--Kath Browne, coauthor of Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place and Power
"As we enter a new era of public protest, Currans offers a feminist and queer guide to holding public space. Her beautifully rendered and theoretically sharp ethnography illuminates the effect of organizing, the ways that witnessing, marching, lobbying, and demonstrating transforms lives in the process of developing counterpublics."--Eileen Boris, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
"Empirically rich, and boasting extensive quotations from protest participants, the main strength of Curran's account--from a cultural geographer's perspective--is that it examines how space can be transformed via embodied performance: she turns to queer, feminist and critical race theory to emphasize the performance force of counterpublic spaces." --
Cultural Geographies "Currans's cogent prose, combined with the integration of multidisciplinary academic work and on-the-ground accounts, appeals to broad audiences of scholars and activists alike." --
Gender & Society"Currans draws from feminist, queer, and critical race theory in fashioning an ethnography that illuminates much about the ever problematic relationship between gender and geography." --
Politics & Gender
