Greater engagement with feminist phenomenology introduced a concern to reconstruct the spatial experience of the lived medieval body, while feminist film studies contributed the model of ‘the gaze’ that has influenced the gendered analysis of both visual and architectural media. Aspects of gender and power were highlighted in discussions of the spatial segregation of religious and elite women, while the influence of anthropology was seen in studies of spatial movement, meaning and metaphor. In common with contemporary feminist studies in geography and architecture, the central aim was to make women in the past more visible and tangible. Studies of gender and space began in the 1980s by mapping of spatial locales that could be linked with the everyday activities of medieval men and women. This paper focuses on themes of space and the body to compare the interpretative models developed by researchers in archaeology, history and art history as scholarship has shifted from first to third wave feminisms. The materiality of gender: space, vision, and the body in the middle ages.
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