Abstract: Gender, body and space have always been important topics in feminist theoretical research. “Feminist scholars have done a lot of research on space and human sociality since the 1970s. They are mainly devoted to the study of the relationship between different social categories, such as gender, race, class, and material space. How do people experience space? Is the space gender specific? How do patriarchal social mechanisms and discourses regulate and limit women's spaces in the political, economic, legal and cultural spheres?” Under the social control of male chauvinism, women have always been oppressed. This kind of oppression is implemented and finally completed through the limitation of space to the body. Therefore, it is a unique perspective for feminism to understand the politics of body space to examine the tension of power rule between gender, body and space.

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