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Boundaries may be material or ideological, physical and/or conceptual. Here, boundaries are represented in both physical and social structures, but are equally represented and recognised in their ambiguity, permeability, symbolic strength and possible symbolic transformation. Boundaries control space, and those who would use that space. Boundaries include and exclude, and create thereby arenas of contestation. The control of boundaries, the boundaries of control, and the transcending and dissolution of those boundaries, are the theme of this chapter.
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E. Goffman, 1979, Gender Advertisements, Macmillan, London, cited in S. Ardener (1993:2).
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Pittin, R.I. (2002). Space, Time and Liminality: The Permeability of Boundaries. In: Women and Work in Northern Nigeria. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403914217_4
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