A companion to feminist geography / edited by Lise Nelson and Joni Seager.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Lise Nelson, Joni Seager -- PART I. CONTEXTS -- Situating gender / Liz Bondi, Joyce Davidson -- Anti-racist feminism in geography: an agenda for social action / Audrey Kobayashi -- A bodily notion of research: power, difference, and specificity in feminist methodology / Pamela Moss -- Transnational mobilities and challenges / Brenda S.A. Yeoh -- PART II. WORK -- Feminist analyses of work: rethinking the boundaries, gendering, and spatiality of work / Kim England, Victoria Lawson -- Shea Butter, globalization, and women of Burkina Faso / Marlene Elias, Judith Carney -- Working on the global assembly line / Altha J. Cravey -- From migrant to immigrant: domestic workers settle in Vancouver, Canada / Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre -- Borders, embodiment, and mobility: feminist migration studies in geography / Rachel Silvey -- The changing roles of female labor in economic expansion and decline: the case of the Istanbul clothing industry / Ayda Eraydin, Asuman Turkun-Erendil -- Female labor in sex trafficking: a darker side of globalization / Vidyamali Samarasinghe -- Changing the gender of entrepreneurship / Susan Hanson, Megan Blake -- Gender and empowerment: creating "Thus far and no further" supportive structures. A case from India / Saraswati Raju -- PART III. CITY -- Feminist geographies of the "city": multiple voices, multiple meanings / Valerie Preston, Ebru Ustundag -- Spaces of change: gender, information technology, and new geographies of mobility and fixity in the early twentieth-century information economy / Kate Boyer -- Gender and the city: the different formations of belonging / Tovi Fenster -- Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed / Hille Koskela -- Daycare services provision for working women in Japan / Kamiya Hiroo -- Organizing from the margins: grappling with "empowerment" in India and South Africa / Richa Nagar, Amanda Lock Swarr -- 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 -- Women outdoors: destabilizing the public/private dichotomy / Phil Hubbard -- PART IV. BODY -- Situating bodies / Robyn Longhurst -- Bodies, state discipline, and the performance of gender in a South African women's prison / Teresa Dirsuweit -- HIV/AIDS interventions and the politics of the African woman's body / Kawango Agot -- British Pakistani Muslim women: marking the body, marking the nation / Robina Mohammad -- Transversal circuits: transnational sexualities and Trinidad / Jasbir Kaur Puar -- PART V. ENVIRONMENT -- 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 -- Gender relations beyond farm fences: reframing the spatial context of local forest livelihoods / Anoja Wickramasinghe -- The new species of capitalism: an ecofeminist comment on animal biotechnology / Jody Emel, Julie Urbanik -- Siren songs: gendered discourses of concern for sea creatures / Jennifer Wolch, Jin Zhang -- Geographic information and women's empowerment: a breast cancer example / Sara McLafferty -- Performing a "global sense of place": women's actions for environmental justice / Giovanna Di Chiro -- PART IV. STATE/NATION -- Feminist political geographies / Eleonore Kofman -- Gender, race, and nationalism: American identity and economic imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century / Mona Domosh -- Virility and violation in the US "War on Terrorism" / Matthew G. Hannah -- Feminist geopolitics and September 11 / Jennifer Hyndman -- Love for sale: marketing gay male p/leisure space in contemporary Cape Town, South Africa / Glen S. Elder -- Women's struggles for sustainable peace in post-conflict Peru: a feminist analysis of violence and change / Maureen Hays-Mitchell.