A companion to feminist geography /
A companion to feminist geography /
edited by Lise Nelson and Joni Seager.
- xvii, 617 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Blackwell companions to geography ; 6. .
- Blackwell companions to geography ; 6. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Situating gender / Anti-racist feminism in geography: 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 / Lise Nelson, Joni Seager -- Liz Bondi, Joyce Davidson -- Audrey Kobayashi -- Pamela Moss -- Brenda S.A. Yeoh -- Kim England, Victoria Lawson -- Marlene Elias, Judith Carney -- Altha J. Cravey -- Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre -- Rachel Silvey -- Ayda Eraydin, Asuman Turkun-Erendil -- Vidyamali Samarasinghe -- Susan Hanson, Megan Blake -- Saraswati Raju -- Valerie Preston, Ebru Ustundag -- Kate Boyer -- Tovi Fenster -- Hille Koskela -- Kamiya Hiroo -- Richa Nagar, Amanda Lock Swarr -- Melissa R. Gilbert, Michele Masucci -- Phil Hubbard -- Robyn Longhurst -- Teresa Dirsuweit -- Kawango Agot -- Robina Mohammad -- Jasbir Kaur Puar -- Dianne Rocheleu -- Anoja Wickramasinghe -- Jody Emel, Julie Urbanik -- Jennifer Wolch, Jin Zhang -- Sara McLafferty -- Giovanna Di Chiro -- Eleonore Kofman -- Mona Domosh -- Matthew G. Hannah -- Jennifer Hyndman -- Glen S. Elder -- Maureen Hays-Mitchell. PART I. CONTEXTS -- PART II. WORK -- PART III. CITY -- PART IV. BODY -- PART V. ENVIRONMENT -- PART IV. STATE/NATION --
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Feminist geography.
Women--Social conditions.
Women--Employment.
Women and city planning.
Women and the environment.
HQ1233 / .C53 2005
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Situating gender / Anti-racist feminism in geography: 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 / Lise Nelson, Joni Seager -- Liz Bondi, Joyce Davidson -- Audrey Kobayashi -- Pamela Moss -- Brenda S.A. Yeoh -- Kim England, Victoria Lawson -- Marlene Elias, Judith Carney -- Altha J. Cravey -- Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre -- Rachel Silvey -- Ayda Eraydin, Asuman Turkun-Erendil -- Vidyamali Samarasinghe -- Susan Hanson, Megan Blake -- Saraswati Raju -- Valerie Preston, Ebru Ustundag -- Kate Boyer -- Tovi Fenster -- Hille Koskela -- Kamiya Hiroo -- Richa Nagar, Amanda Lock Swarr -- Melissa R. Gilbert, Michele Masucci -- Phil Hubbard -- Robyn Longhurst -- Teresa Dirsuweit -- Kawango Agot -- Robina Mohammad -- Jasbir Kaur Puar -- Dianne Rocheleu -- Anoja Wickramasinghe -- Jody Emel, Julie Urbanik -- Jennifer Wolch, Jin Zhang -- Sara McLafferty -- Giovanna Di Chiro -- Eleonore Kofman -- Mona Domosh -- Matthew G. Hannah -- Jennifer Hyndman -- Glen S. Elder -- Maureen Hays-Mitchell. PART I. CONTEXTS -- PART II. WORK -- PART III. CITY -- PART IV. BODY -- PART V. ENVIRONMENT -- PART IV. STATE/NATION --
1405101865
2004007288
Feminist geography.
Women--Social conditions.
Women--Employment.
Women and city planning.
Women and the environment.
HQ1233 / .C53 2005
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