Screen LibraryA companion to feminist geography
Though each of the essays can be read for its own distinctive contribution, the anthology as a whole is designed to provide a mosaic of feminist geography for both scholars and students.
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to geography ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996898 |
| Summary: |
Though each of the essays can be read for its own distinctive contribution, the anthology as a whole is designed to provide a mosaic of feminist geography for both scholars and students. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 617 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780470996898 0470996897 1405137363 (electronic bk.) 9781405137362 (electronic bk.) 1280199520 9781280199523 |
| Index Number: | HQ1233 |
| CLC: | C913.68 |
| Contents: |
Situating gender / Anti-racist feminism in geogrpahy: an agenda for social action / A bodily notion of research: power, difference, and specificity in feminist methodology / Transnational mobilities and challenges / Feminist analyses of work: rethinking the boundaries, gendering, and spatiality of work / Shea Butter, globalization, and women of Burkina Faso / Working on the global assembly line / From migrant to immigrant: domestic workers settle in Vancouver, Canada / Borders, embodiment, and mobility: feminist migration studies in geography / The changing roles of female labor in economic expansion and decline: the case of the Istanbul clothing industry / Female labor in sex trafficking: a darker side of globalization / Changing the gender of entrepreneurship / Gender and empowerment: creating "Thus far and no further" supportive structures. A case from India / Feminist geographies of the "city": multiple voices, multiple meanings / Spaces of change: gender, information technology, and new geographies of mobility and fixity in the early twentieth-century information economy / Gender and the city: the different formations of belonging / Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed / Daycare services provision for working women in Japan / Organizing from the margins: grappling with "empowerment" in India and South Africa / Moving beyond "gender and GIS" to a feminist perspective on information technologies: the impact of welfare reform on women's IT needs / Women outdoors: destabilizing the public/private dichotomy / Situating bodies / Bodies, state discipline, and the performance of gender in a South African women's prison / HIV/AIDS interventions and the politics of the African woman's body / British Pakistani Muslim women: marking the body, marking the nation / Transversal circuits: transnational sexualities and Trinidad / Listening to the landscapes of Mama Tingo: from the "Woman question" in sustainable development to feminist political ecology in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic / Gender relations beyond farm fences: reframing the spatial context of local forest livelihoods / The new species of capitalism: an ecofeminist comment on animal biotechnology / Siren songs: gendered discourses of concern for sea creatures / Geographic information and women's empowerment: a breast cancer example / Performing a "global sense of place": women's actions for environmental justice / Feminist political geographies / Gender, race, and nationalism: American identity and economic imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century / Virility and violation in the US "War on Terrorism" / Feminist geopolitics and September 11 / Love for sale: marketing gay male p/leisure space in contemporary Cape Town, South Africa / Women's struggles for sustainable peace in post-conflict Peru: a feminist analysis of violence and change / |