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A Companion to Feminist Geography
Lise Nelson (Edited by), L Nelson (Author), Joni Seager (Edited by)
9781405101868, Wiley
Hardback, published 3 November 2004
640 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 4.1 cm, 1.243 kg
"A kaleidoscopic presentation of the riches of feminist geography, revealing at every turn the breadth of its theoretical perspectives, the variety of its objects of inquiry, and the reach of its methodologies. At once poetic, polemical and rigorous, the Companion to Feminist Geography cross-cuts contemporary feminist research at all scales with historiographies of feminist thought in the field. With chapters by a truly international group of authors, this anthology inscribes feminist geography at the heart of the discipline as it makes the vitality of geographic thought vivid not only for other fields but for a range of political movements as well." "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." "An extensive resource written by influential feminist thinkers and practitioners...All Blackwell Companions are relevant to academics, researchers and students in their disciplines and beyond, but this volume on feminist geography will have more general appeal"
—Cindi Katz, Graduate Centre, City University of New York
—Reference and Research Book News, Vol 20/1, Feb 2005
—Reference Reviews
A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. "A kaleidoscopic presentation of the riches of feminist geography; revealing at every turn the breadth of its theoretical perspectives, the variety of its objects of inquiry, and the reach of its methodologies. At once poetic, polemical, and rigorous, A Companion to Feminist Geography cross-cuts contemporary feminist research at all scales with historiographies of feminist thought in the field. With chapters by a truly international group of authors, this anthology inscribes feminist geography at the heart of the discipline as it makes the vitality of geographic thought vivid, not only for other fields, but for a range of political movements as well."
—Cindi Katz, City University of New York
List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xviii 1 Introduction 1 Part I Contexts 13 2 Situating Gender 15 3 Anti-racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action 32 4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology 41 5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges 60 Part II Work 75 6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work 77 7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso 93 8 Working on the Global Assembly Line 109 9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada 123 10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography 138 11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry 150 12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization 166 13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship 179 14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating "Thus Far and No Further" Supportive Structures. A Case from India 194 Part III City 209 15 Feminist Geographies of the "City": Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings 211 16 Spaces of Change: Gender, Information Technology, and New Geographies of Mobility and Fixity in the Early Twentieth-century Information Economy 228 17 Gender and the City: The Different Formations of Belonging 242 18 Urban Space in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed 257 19 Daycare Services Provision for Working Women in Japan 271 20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with "Empowerment" in India and South Africa 291 21 Moving beyond "Gender and GIS" to a Feminist Perspective on Information Technologies: The Impact 22 Women Outdoors: Destabilizing the Public/Private Dichotomy 322 Part IV Body 335 23 Situating Bodies 337 24 Bodies, State Discipline, and the Performance of Gender in a South African Women's Prison 350 25 HIV/AIDS Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman's Body 363 26 British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation 379 27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad 398 Part V Environment 417 28 Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the "Woman Question" in Sustainable Development 29 Gender Relations beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods 434 30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology 445 31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures 458 32 Geographic Information and Women's Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example 486 33 Performing a "Global Sense of Place": Women's Actions for Environmental Justice 496 Part VI State/Nation 517 34 Feminist Political Geographies 519 35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 534 36 Virility and Violation in the US "War on Terrorism" 550 37 Feminist Geopolitics and September 11 565 38 Love for Sale: Marketing Gay Male P/Leisure Space in Contemporary Cape Town, South Africa 578 39 Women's Struggles for Sustainable Peace in Post-conflict Peru: A Feminist Analysis of Violence and Change 590 Index 607
Lise Nelson and Joni Seager
Liz Bondi and Joyce Davidson
Audrey Kobayashi
Pamela Moss
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Kim England and Victoria Lawson
Marlène Elias and Judith Carney
Altha J. Cravey
Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre
Rachel Silvey
Ayda Eraydýn and Asuman Turkun-Erendil
Vidyamali Samarasinghe
Susan Hanson and Megan Blake
Saraswati Raju
Valerie Preston and Ebru Ustundag
Kate Boyer
Tovi Fenster
Hille Koskela
Kamiya Hiroo
Richa Nagar and Amanda Lock Swarr
of Welfare Reform on Women's IT Needs 305
Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci
Phil Hubbard
Robyn Longhurst
Teresa Dirsuweit
Kawango Agot
Robina Mohammad
Jasbir Kaur Puar
to Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana–Chacuey, Dominican Republic 419
Dianne Rocheleau
Anoja Wickramasinghe
Jody Emel and Julie Urbanik
Jennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang
Sara McLafferty
Giovanna Di Chiro
Eleonore Kofman
Mona Domosh
Matthew G. Hannah
Jennifer Hyndman
Glen S. Elder
Maureen Hays-Mitchell
Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
