A Companion to Feminist Geography (eBook)

Lise Nelson, Joni Seager (Herausgeber)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781405137362 (ISBN)

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A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field.

• Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s.
  
• Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today.
  
• Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers.
  
• Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation.
  
• Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in the field.


• Each chapter can be read for its own distinctive contribution.

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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

Autor

Lise Nelson is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, where she teaches courses on globalization, politics, and gender in Latin America and the United States. She is currently completing a book, Women Defending the Plaza: Gender, Citizenship and the Politics of Place. Joni Seager is Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the co-founder of a feminist environmental NGO, the "Committee on Women, Population, and Environment." Her previous publications include The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World (2003) and Putting Women in Place (co-author, 2001).

Rezensionen

"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." Cindi Katz, Graduate Centre, City University of New
York

"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."
Reference and Research Book News, Vol 20/1, Feb 2005

"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" Reference Reviews

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Geography
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Geography
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: around • Companion • ConText • contributors • debates • disciplines • Diversity • feminist • fundamental approaches across • Geographical • Geographie • Geography • Inquiry • Interdisciplinary • Landscape • Range • Social & Cultural Geography • Social Identity • Sociology • Soziale Identität • Soziale Identität • Soziologie • Sozio- u. Kulturgeographie • Substantive • vibrant • World
• ISBN-13: 9781405137362 / 9781405137362