Note: "A fully revised and updated edition of The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World.". - Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Auf der Rückseite des Titelblattes: "Fifth edition"

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-126) and index

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Previous ed.: 2005

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Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction , Introduction , PART I. CONTEXTS ; Situating gender , Anti-racist feminism in geogrpahy: an agenda for social action , A bodily notion of research: power, difference, and specificity in feminist methodology , Transnational mobilities and challenges , PART II. WORK ; Feminist analyses of work: rethinking the boundaries, gendering, and spatiality of work , Shea Butter, globalization, and women of Burkina Faso , Working on the global assembly line , From migrant to immigrant: domestic workers settle in Vancouver, Canada , Borders, embodiment, and mobility: feminist migration studies in geography , The changing roles of female labor in economic expansion and decline: the case of the Istanbul clothing industry , Female labor in sex trafficking: a darker side of globalization , Changing the gender of entrepreneurship , Gender and empowerment: creating "Thus far and no further" supportive structures. A case from India , PART III. CITY ; Feminist geographies of the "city": multiple voices, multiple meanings , Spaces of change: gender, information technology, and new geographies of mobility and fixity in the early twentieth-century information economy , Gender and the city: the different formations of belonging , Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed , Daycare services provision for working women in Japan , Organizing from the margins: grappling with "empowerment" in India and South Africa , Moving beyond "gender and GIS" to a feminist perspective on information technologies: the impact of welfare reform on women's IT needs , Women outdoors: destabilizing the public/private dichotomy , PART IV. BODY ; Situating bodies , Bodies, state discipline, and the performance of gender in a South African women's prison , HIV/AIDS interventions and the politics of the African woman's body , British Pakistani Muslim women: marking the body, marking the nation , Transversal circuits: transnational sexualities and Trinidad , PART V. ENVIRONMENT ; Listening to the landscapes of Mama Tingo: from the "Woman question" in sustainable development to feminist political ecology in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic , Gender relations beyond farm fences: reframing the spatial context of local forest livelihoods , The new species of capitalism: an ecofeminist comment on animal biotechnology , Siren songs: gendered discourses of concern for sea creatures , Geographic information and women's empowerment: a breast cancer example , Performing a "global sense of place": women's actions for environmental justice , PART IV. STATE/NATION ; Feminist political geographies , Gender, race, and nationalism: American identity and economic imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century , Virility and violation in the US "War on Terrorism" , Feminist geopolitics and September 11 , Love for sale: marketing gay male p/leisure space in contemporary Cape Town, South Africa , Women's struggles for sustainable peace in post-conflict Peru: a feminist analysis of violence and change , PART I. CONTEXTSSituating gender , Anti-racist feminism in geogrpahy: an agenda for social action , A bodily notion of research: power, difference, and specificity in feminist methodology , Transnational mobilities and challenges , PART II. WORKFeminist analyses of work: rethinking the boundaries, gendering, and spatiality of work , Shea Butter, globalization, and women of Burkina Faso , Working on the global assembly line , From migrant to immigrant: domestic workers settle in Vancouver, Canada , Borders, embodiment, and mobility: feminist migration studies in geography , The changing roles of female labor in economic expansion and decline: the case of the Istanbul clothing industry , Female labor in sex trafficking: a darker side of globalization , Changing the gender of entrepreneurship , Gender and empowerment: creating "Thus far and no further" supportive structures. A case from India , PART III. CITYFeminist geographies of the "city": multiple voices, multiple meanings , Spaces of change: gender, information technology, and new geographies of mobility and fixity in the early twentieth-century information economy , Gender and the city: the different formations of belonging , Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed , Daycare services provision for working women in Japan , Organizing from the margins: grappling with "empowerment" in India and South Africa , Moving beyond "gender and GIS" to a feminist perspective on information technologies: the impact of welfare reform on women's IT needs , Women outdoors: destabilizing the public/private dichotomy , PART IV. BODYSituating bodies , Bodies, state discipline, and the performance of gender in a South African women's prison , HIV/AIDS interventions and the politics of the African woman's body , British Pakistani Muslim women: marking the body, marking the nation , Transversal circuits: transnational sexualities and Trinidad , PART V. ENVIRONMENTListening to the landscapes of Mama Tingo: from the "Woman question" in sustainable development to feminist political ecology in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic , Gender relations beyond farm fences: reframing the spatial context of local forest livelihoods , The new species of capitalism: an ecofeminist comment on animal biotechnology , Siren songs: gendered discourses of concern for sea creatures , Geographic information and women's empowerment: a breast cancer example , Performing a "global sense of place": women's actions for environmental justice , PART IV. STATE/NATIONFeminist political geographies , Gender, race, and nationalism: American identity and economic imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century , Virility and violation in the US "War on Terrorism" , Feminist geopolitics and September 11 , Love for sale: marketing gay male p/leisure space in contemporary Cape Town, South Africa , Women's struggles for sustainable peace in post-conflict Peru: a feminist analysis of violence and change , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Previous ed.: published as Women in the world / Joni Seager & Ann Olson. London : Pan, 1986