ISBN:
1405101865
,
0470996897
,
1280199520
,
9780470996898
,
9781280199523
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 617 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to geography 6
Parallel Title:
Print version Companion to feminist geography
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Women and city planning
;
Women and the environment
;
Women Employment
;
Women Social conditions
;
Feminist geography
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Geografie
;
Feminismus
;
Frau
;
Sozialgeografie
;
Frauenforschung
;
Geschlechterforschung
Abstract:
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
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
DOI:
10.1002/9780470996898
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