Title & Author:

Space, gender, knowledge : feminist readings / edited by Linda McDowell and Joanne P. Sharp.

Publication:

London ; New York : Arnold ; New York : J. Wiley, 1997.

Description:

xi, 468 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- 1 Why Study Feminist Geography? (starting p. 19) -- 2 "Gender" for a Marxist Dictionary: the Sexual Politics of a Word (starting p. 23) / Donna Haraway -- 3 Gender as a Structure of Social Practice (starting p. 44) / R.W. Connell -- 4 Situated Knowledges: the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (starting p. 53) / Donna Haraway -- 5 Feminism, Postmodernism and Geography: Space for Women? (starting p. 73) / Liz Bondi -- 6 Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience (starting p. 82) / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- 7 Doing Gender: Feminism, Feminists and Research Methods in Human Geography (starting p. 105) / Linda McDowell -- 8 Can there be a Feminist Ethnography? (starting p. 115) / Judith Stacey -- 9 "Stuffed if I Know": Reflections on Post-modern Feminist Social Research (starting p. 124) / J.K. Gibson-Graham -- 10 On not Being Anywhere Near the "Project": Revolutionary Ways of Putting Ourselves in the Picture (starting p. 147) / Vera Chouinard, Ali Grant -- 11 The Earth is not your Mother (starting p. 171) / Joni Seager -- 12 Women in Nature (starting p. 174) / Vandana Shiva -- 13 Man Bad, Woman Good? Essentialisms and Ecofeminisms (starting p. 177) / Caroline New -- 14 Looking at Landscape: the Uneasy Pleasures of Power (starting p. 193) / Gillian Rose -- 15 Growing up White: Feminism, Racism and the Social Geography of Childhood (starting p. 209) / Ruth Frankenberg -- 16 The Scaling of Bodies and the Politics of Identity (starting p. 218) / Iris Marion Young -- 17 Anglo-American Feminism, "Women's Liberation" and the Politics of the Body (starting p. 232) / Susan Bordo -- 18 Inscriptions and Body Maps: Representations and the Corporeal (starting p. 236) / Elizabeth Grosz -- 19 Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory and Psychoanalytic Discourse (starting p. 247) / Judith Butler -- 20 Housing and American Life (starting p. 269) / Delores Hayden -- 21 Into the Labyrinth (starting p. 277) / Elizabeth Wilson -- 22 (Hetero)Sexing Space: Lesbian Perceptions and Experiences of Everyday Spaces (starting p. 284) / Gill Valentine -- 23 Femininity, Post-Fordism and the "New Traditionalism" (starting p. 300) / D.A. Leslie -- 24 Women, Employment and the Family (starting p. 327) / Sharon Stichter -- 25 Gender Segregation and the Sex-typing of Jobs (starting p. 343) / Harriet Bradley -- 26 Industrial Restructuring as Class Restructuring: Production Decentralization and Local Uniqueness (starting p. 353) / Doreen Massey -- 27 Missing Subjects: Gender, Sexuality and Power in Merchant Banking (starting p. 368) / Linda McDowell, Gill Court -- 28 Fast Food, Fettered Work: Chinese Women in the Ethnic Catering Industry (starting p. 384) / S. Baxter, G. Raw -- 29 Gender and Nation (starting p. 403) / Nira Yuval-Davis -- 30 No Longer in a Future Heaven: Gender Race and Nationalism (starting p. 409) / Anne McClintock -- 31 Middle East Politics through Feminist Lenses: Toward Theorizing International Relations from Women's Struggles (starting p. 425) / Simona Sharoni -- 32 To Live in the Borderlands Means You ... (starting p. 446) / Gloria Anzaldua -- 33 Gender Makes the World Go Round (starting p. 447) / Cynthia Enloe -- Index (starting p. 459)

Summary:

This comprehensive introduction looks at geographies of gender and the gendered nature of spatial relations, outlining the main shifts in geographical feminist work from the geography of women to the impact of post-structuralism.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

034070019X
9780340700198
0340677929 (pbk.)
9780340677926 (pbk.)
047023668X (Wiley)
9780470236680 (Wiley)
0470236698 (Wiley ; pbk.)
9780470236697 (Wiley ; pbk.)

Subject:

Feminist theory.
Feminist geography.
Féminisme Philosophie.
Géographie féministe.
Théorie féministe.
Anthropogeografie
Feminismus
Sekseverschillen.
Ruimtelijke aspecten.
Vrouwen.
Geografia.
Mulher e feminismo.
positie van de vrouw
woman's status
vrouwen
women
recht
law
sociale geografie
social geography
cultuur
culture
geografie
geography
verspreiding van onderzoek
diffusion of research
informatieverspreiding
diffusion of information
vrouwenbeweging
women's movement
feminisme
feminism
vrouw en samenleving
woman and society
Social Geography
Sociale geografie

Added entries:

McDowell, Linda, 1949-
Sharp, Joanne P.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205824
Call No.: HQ1190 .S67 1997
Status: Available