From the Guest Editor

As the guest editor of this special issue of the Kadın/ Woman 2000-Journal for Women’s Studies, I am delighted to introduce to the reader six articles and a book review related to the selected title ‘Woman and Space’. These articles deal with the subject from a theoretical and experimental standpoint; yet they differ from one another according to their interest in various spatial contexts, distinctive spatial appearances and divergent gender identities such as: Space as urban,architectural and social context; space in the neighborhood hamam; spatial representations in catalogues; women’s identity in marginal household dwellings and identities of the woman artist and their work spaces.