Complex Locations (eBook)

Women's Geographical Work in the UK 1850-1970

Avril Maddrell (Autor)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
432 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-9958-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women
who played a critical role in the development of geography as an
academic field.

* A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30
individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970

* Includes oral histories from women who have held appointments
in British universities since World War II

* Makes the work of women geographers visible and challenges the
notion of pre 1970s geography as an overwhelmingly masculine
field

* Makes an important contribution to debates about the
theoretical and methodological framing of the historiography of
geography

Autor

Avril Maddrell is a social, cultural and historical geographer, specializing in gender and geographical thought. She has taught at Westminster College in Oxford, the Open University, Oxford Brookes University, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Dr Maddrell's research for this volume has been supported by the British Academy.

Inhalt

List of Figures and Tables.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1. Putting Women in their Place: Women in the Historiography of
Geography.

2. Women and British Geographical Societies: Medals, Membership,
Inclusion and Exclusion.

3. Marion Newbigin and the Liminal Role of the Geographical
Editor: Hired Help or Disciplinary Gatekeeper?

4. Women Travellers: Inside or Outside the Canon?

5. Women in Geographical Education: Demand for Geography
Teachers and Teaching by Example.

6. Diplomas, Degrees and Appointments: The First Generation of
Women Geographers in Academia.

7. Fieldwork and War Work: Interwar University Geographers.

8. The War Years and Immediate Post-War Period.

9. University Expansion, Specialisation and Quantification:
1950-70.

10. Conclusion: Mapping the 'Hidden' Women in
British Geography 1900-70.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Rezensionen

"With this book, the history and historiography of modern geography
- always engaging and much revitalised of late - will be
invigorated yet further. At once a work of scholarly research,
sensitive biography and theoretical enquiry, Complex
Locations places women where they have always been in British
geography - at its heart. It will interest many and deserves to be
widely read."

-Charles W J Withers , University of
Edinburgh

"This book is based on highly original and scholarly research and
fills a notable absence in historiographies of Geography. It will
be a valuable addition to debates about gender and feminism within
the discipline."

-Cheryl McEwan , Durham University

"As the first book length study of early women geographers in
Britain, Complex Locations will be essential reading for
feminist geographers and historians of the discipline. Drawing on
wonderfully rich and original archival research, the book explores
the important but often forgotten work of women as academics,
educationalists and travellers in shaping British geography since
the nineteenth century. By studying their lives and work through
its engaging biographical and contextual analysis, the book is
vitally important not only in illuminating the long history of
geographical work by women, but also in understanding the history
of the discipline and the gendered production of knowledge more
broadly."

-Alison Blunt , Queen Mary, University of
London

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2011
• Reihe/Serie: RGS-IBG Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: RGS-IBG Book Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Anthropogeographie • Geographie • Geography • Human geography • Social & Cultural Geography • Sozio- u. Kulturgeographie
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-9958-6 / 1444399586
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-9958-5 / 9781444399585