TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nelson,Lise
AU  - Seager,Joni
TI  - A companion to feminist geography
T2  - Blackwell companions to geography
SN  - 1405101865
AV  - HQ1233 .C53 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Feminist geography
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Employment
KW  - Women and city planning
KW  - Women and the environment
N1  - 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
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