Increasingly, women and minorities are entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. The spaces they come to occupy are not empty or neutral, but are imbued with history and meaning. This groundbreaking book interrogates the pernicious, subtle but nonetheless widely held view that certain bodies are naturally entitled to certain spaces, while others are not. Drawing on case studies from within the nation state, including Westminster and Whitehall, the art world, academia and everyd ay life, this book uncovers the hidden processes that undermine female and/or racialized bodies in.