A companion to feminist geography
By: edited by Lise Nelson & Joni Seager.
Contributors: Nelson, Lise.; Seager, Joni.
Series: Blackwell companions to geography -- 6
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 617
Subjects: Feminist geography; Women -- Social conditions; Women -- Employment; Women and city planning; Women and the environment
Description: "A Companion to Feminist Geography shows how feminist geography has altered the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s, reframing fundamental approaches across a range of disciplines, including architecture, environmental studies, and geography. Further, it situates feminist geography within the context of geographical thought and within interdisciplinary feminist debates." "The volume reflects the various sites and locations from which feminist geographical analysis is being produced and it includes a systematic assessment of feminist contributions to major sub-fields in geography, covering both established subjects, such as labor, urban, and environmental geography, and emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Lise Nelson, -- Joni Seager -- Part I. contents; title: Situating gender -- Liz Bondi, -- Joyce Davidson; title: Anti-racist feminism in geogrpahy: an agenda for social action -- Audrey Kobayashi; title: A bodily notion of research: power, difference, and specificity in feminist methodology -- Pamela Moss; title: Transnational mobilities and challenges -- Brenda S.A. Yeoh -- Part II. Work; title: Feminist analyses of work: rethinking the boundaries, gendering, and spatiality of work -- Kim England, -- Victoria Lawson; title: Shea Butter, globalization, and women of Burkina Faso -- Marlène Elias, -- Judith Carney; title: Working on the global assembly line -- Altha J. Cravey; title: From migrant to immigrant: domestic workers settle in Vancouver, Canada -- Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre; title: Borders, embodiment, and mobility: feminist migration studies in geography -- Rachel Silvey; title: The changing roles of female labor in economic expansion and decline: the case of the Istanbul clothing industry -- Ayda Eraydin, -- Asuman Turkun-Erendil; title: Female labor in sex trafficking: a darker side of globalization -- Vidyamali Samarasinghe; title: Changing the gender of entrepreneurship -- Susan Hanson, -- Megan Blake; title: Gender and empowerment: creating "Thus far and no further" supportive structures. A case from India -- Saraswati Raju -- Part III. City; title: Feminist geographies of the "city": multiple voices, multiple meanings -- Valerie Preston, -- Ebru Ustundag; title: Spaces of change: gender, information technology, and new geographies of mobility and fixity in the early twentieth-century information economy -- Kate Boyer; title: Gender and the city: the different formations of belonging -- Tovi Fenster; title: Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed -- Hille Koskela; title: Daycare services provision for working women in Japan -- Kamiya Hiroo; title: Organizing from the margins: grappling with "empowerment" in India and South Africa -- Richa Nagar, -- Amanda Lock Swarr; title: Moving beyond "gender and GIS" to a feminist perspective on information technologies: the impact of welfare reform on women's IT needs -- Melissa R. Gilbert, -- Michele Masucci; title: Women outdoors: destabilizing the public/private dichotomy -- Phil Hubbard -- Part IV. Body; title: Situating bodies -- Robyn Longhurst; title: Bodies, state discipline, and the performance of gender in a South African women's prison -- Teresa Dirsuweit; title: HIV/AIDS interventions and the politics of the African woman's body -- Kawango Agot; title: British Pakistani Muslim women: marking the body, marking the nation -- Robina Mohammad; title: Transversal circuits: transnational sexualities and Trinidad -- Jasbir Kaur Puar -- Part V. Environment; title: Listening to the landscapes of Mama Tingo: from the "Woman question" in sustainable development to feminist political ecology in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic -- Dianne Rocheleu; title: Gender relations beyond farm fences: reframing the spatial context of local forest livelihoods -- Anoja Wickramasinghe; title: The new species of capitalism: an ecofeminist comment on animal biotechnology -- Jody Emel, -- Julie Urbanik; title: Siren songs: gendered discourses of concern for sea creatures -- Jennifer Wolch, -- Jin Zhang; title: Geographic information and women's empowerment: a breast cancer example -- Sara McLafferty; title: Performing a "global sense of place": women's actions for environmental justice -- Giovanna Di Chiro -- Part IV. Station/Nation; title: Feminist political geographies -- Eleonore Kofman; title: Gender, race, and nationalism: American identity and economic imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century -- Mona Domosh; title: Virility and violation in the US "War on Terrorism" -- Matthew G. Hannah; title: Feminist geopolitics and September 11 -- Jennifer Hyndman; title: Love for sale: marketing gay male p/leisure space in contemporary Cape Town, South Africa -- Glen S. Elder; title: Women's struggles for sustainable peace in post-conflict Peru: a feminist analysis of violence and change-- Maureen Hays-Mitchell