NELSON LISE / SEAGER JONI

Gebundenes Buch

A Companion to Feminist Geography

Beschreibung

A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. It 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 Companion, featuring contributors from around the world, explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today, tracing the emergence of key debates in the field. 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.

Autor

Lise Nelson is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, where she teaches courses on globalization, politics, and gender in Latin America and the United States. She is currently completing a book, Women Defending the Plaza: Gender, Citizenship and the Politics of Place.. Joni Seager is Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the co-founder of a feminist environmental NGO, the "Committee on Women, Population, and Environment." Her previous publications include The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World (2003) and Putting Women in Place (co-author, 2001).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 1991. 2nd Printing and Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 174mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1256g
• ISBN-13: 9781405101868
• ISBN-10: 1405101865
• Artikelnr.: 22455198

Rezensionen

"A kaleidoscopic presentation of the riches of feminist geography,revealing at every turn the breadth of its theoreticalperspectives, the variety of its objects of inquiry, and the reachof its methodologies. At once poetic, polemical and rigorous, theCompanion to Feminist Geography cross-cuts contemporary feministresearch at all scales with historiographies of feminist thought inthe field. With chapters by a truly international group of authors,this anthology inscribes feminist geography at the heart of thediscipline as it makes the vitality of geographic thought vivid notonly for other fields but for a range of political movements aswell." Cindi Katz, Graduate Centre, City University of NewYork

"Though each of the essays can be read for its own distinctivecontribution, the anthology as a whole is designed to provide amosaic of feminist geography for both scholars and students."Reference and Research Book News, Vol 20/1, Feb 2005

"An extensive resource written by influential feminist thinkersand practitioners...All Blackwell Companions are relevant toacademics, researchers and students in their disciplines andbeyond, but this volume on feminist geography will have moregeneral appeal" Reference Reviews