Feminism and Geography
The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

Gillian Rose (Author)

9780745611563, Polity Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 June 1993

216 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 1.7 cm, 0.312 kg

'It's very personal, very courageous, and very challenging.' Derek Gregory, Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia

'.subtle and sophisticated.this is an important book.' The Geographical Journal

Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, men's interests have structured what counts as legitimate geographical knowledge. This book offers a sustained examination of the masculinism of contemporary geographical discourses.

Drawing on the work of feminist theories about the intersection of power, knowledge and subjectivity, different aspects of the discipline's masculinism are discussed in a series of essays which bring influential approaches in recent geography together with feminist accounts of the space of the everyday, the notion of a sense of place and views of landscape. In the final chapter, the spatial imagery of a variety of feminists is examined in order to argue that the geographical imagination implicit in feminist discussions of the politics of location is one example of a geography which does not deny difference in the name of a universal masculinity.

Acknowledgements.

1. Feminism and Geography: An Introduction.

Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]