Map worlds : a history of women in cartography /
Van den Hoonaard, Will. C.(Willy Carl),1942-author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-351) and index.
Introduction : the strands through map worlds -- Who is a cartographer? -- The thirteenth to seventeenth centuries -- The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (1666 to 1850) -- Cartography from the margins : from the early twentieth century to World War II -- Mid-to late-twentieth-century pioneers and advancers in North America -- Late-twentieth-centure pioneers and advancers in Europe, Asia, and Latin America -- "Getting there without aiming at it" : women's experiences in becoming cartographers -- "We are good ghosts!" : orientations and expectations of women cartographers -- Educational opportunities and obstacles -- The gendered social organization -- Female pathways though the present-day map world -- Gender shifts.
Women cartographers
Cartographers
Cartography
Map worlds.