Map Worlds
A History of Women in Cartography

Will C. van den Hoonaard (Author)

9781771121262

Paperback / softback, published 13 May 2014

394 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.6 kg

Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fields and cartography-related organizations, and outlines the challenges they face in their careers. Map Worlds explores women as colourists in early times, describes the major houses of cartographic production, and delves into the economic function of intermarriages among cartographic houses and families. It relates how in later centuries, working from the margins, women produced maps to record painful tribal memories or sought to remedy social injustices. Much later, one woman so changed the way we think about continents that the shift has been likened to the Copernican revolution. Other women created order and wonder about the lunar landscape, and still others turned the art and science of making maps inside out, exposing the hidden, unconscious, and subliminal ""text"" of maps. Shared by all these map-makers are themes of social justice and making maps work for the betterment of humanity.

• Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography by Will C. van den Hoonaard
• List of Figures, Tables, and Charts
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: The Strands through Map Worlds
• 2 Who Is a Cartographer?
• 3 The Thirteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
• 4 The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (1666 to 1850)
• 5 Cartography from the Margins: From the Early Twentieth Century to World War II
• 6 Mid- to Late-Twentieth-Century Pioneers and Advancers in North America
• 7 Late-Twentieth-Century Pioneers and Advancers in Europe, Asia, and Latin America
• 8 ""Getting There without Aiming at It"": Women's Experiences in Becoming Cartographers
• 9 ""We Are Good Ghosts!"": Orientations and Expectations of Women Cartographers
• 10 Educational Opportunities and Obstacles
• 11 The Gendered Social Organization
• 12 Female Pathways through the Present-Day Map World
• 13 Gender Shifts
• Appendices
• A Methodology
• B Topics Covered in an In-Depth Interview
• C Overview of Twenty-Eight Women Pioneers in Cartography
• Notes
• References
• Copyright Acknowledgements
• Index