A Companion to Feminist Geography by Lise Nelson, Joni Seager

By Lise Nelson, Joni Seager

A significant other to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and variety of this vivid and noticeable box.

  • Shows how feminist geography has replaced the panorama of geographical inquiry and information because the Seventies.
  • Explores the various literatures that include feminist geography at the present time.
  • Showcases state-of-the-art examine through feminist geographers.
  • Charts rising parts of scholarship, comparable to the physique and the kingdom.
  • Contributions from 50 top foreign students within the box.
  • Each bankruptcy could be learn for its personal specified contribution.

Content:
Chapter 1 creation (pages 1–11): Lise Nelson and Joni Seager
Chapter 2 Situating Gender (pages 15–31): Liz Bondi and Joyce Davidson
Chapter three Anti?Racist Feminism in Geography: An schedule for Social motion (pages 32–40): Audrey Kobayashi
Chapter four A physically suggestion of study: energy, distinction, and Specificity in Feminist technique (pages 41–59): Pamela Moss
Chapter five Transnational Mobilities and demanding situations (pages 60–73): Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Chapter 6 Feminist Analyses of labor: Rethinking the limits, Gendering, and Spatiality of labor (pages 77–92): Kim England and Victoria Lawson
Chapter 7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and ladies of Burkina Faso (pages 93–108): Marlene Elias and Judith Carney
Chapter eight engaged on the worldwide meeting Line (pages 109–122): Altha J. Cravey
Chapter nine From Migrant to Immigrant: household employees Settle in Vancouver, Canada (pages 123–137): Geraldine Pratt
Chapter 10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration stories in Geography (pages 138–149): Rachel Silvey
Chapter eleven The altering Roles of lady hard work in monetary enlargement and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul garments (pages 150–165): Ayda Eraydyn and Asuman Turkun?Erendil
Chapter 12 lady hard work in intercourse Trafficking: A Darker aspect of Globalization (pages 166–178): Vidyamali Samarasinghe
Chapter thirteen altering the Gender of Entrepreneurship (pages 179–193): Susan Hanson and Megan Blake
Chapter 14 Gender and Empowerment: developing “Thus a long way and no extra” Supportive constructions. A Case from India (pages 194–207): Saraswati Raju
Chapter 15 Feminist Geographies of the “City”: a number of Voices, a number of Meanings (pages 211–227): Valerie Preston and Ebru Ustundag
Chapter sixteen areas of swap: Gender, details know-how, and New Geographies of Mobility and Fixity within the Early Twentiethcentury info economic climate (pages 228–241): Kate Boyer
Chapter 17 Gender and town: the several Formations of Belonging (pages 242–256): Tovi Fenster
Chapter 18 city area in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed (pages 257–270): Hille Koskela
Chapter 19 Daycare providers Provision for operating ladies in Japan (pages 271–290): Kamiya Hiroo
Chapter 20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with “Empowerment” in India and South Africa (pages 291–304): Richa Nagar and Amanda Lock Swarr
Chapter 21 relocating past “Gender and Gis” to a Feminist viewpoint on details applied sciences: The impression of Welfare Reform on Women's it wishes (pages 305–321): Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci
Chapter 22 girls outside: Destabilizing the Public/Private Dichotomy (pages 322–333): Phil Hubbard
Chapter 23 Situating our bodies (pages 337–349): Robyn Longhurst
Chapter 24 our bodies, nation self-discipline, and the functionality of Gender in a South African Women's felony (pages 350–362): Teresa Dirsuweit
Chapter 25 Hiv/Aids Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman's physique (pages 363–378): Kawango Agot
Chapter 26 British Pakistani Muslim ladies: Marking the physique, Marking the country (pages 379–397): Robina Mohammad
Chapter 27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad (pages 398–416): Jasbir Kaur Puar
Chapter 28 hearing the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the “Woman query” in Sustainable improvement to Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana?chacuey, Dominican Republic (pages 419–433): Dianne Rocheleau
Chapter 29 Gender kinfolk past Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of neighborhood woodland Livelihoods (pages 434–444): Anoja Wickramasinghe
Chapter 30 the hot Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist touch upon Animal Biotechnology (pages 445–457): Jody Emel and Julie Urbanik
Chapter 31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of shock for Sea Creatures (pages 458–485): Jennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang
Chapter 32 Geographic info and Women's Empowerment: A Breast melanoma instance (pages 486–495): Sara McLafferty
Chapter 33 acting a “Global experience of Place”: Women's activities for Environmental Justice (pages 496–515): Giovanna Di Chiro
Chapter 34 Feminist Political Geographies (pages 519–533): Eleonore Kofman
Chapter 35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American id and financial Imperialism on the flip of the 20 th Century (pages 534–549): Mona Domosh
Chapter 36 Virility and Violation within the US “War on Terrorism” (pages 550–564): Matthew G. Hannah
Chapter 37 Feminist Geopolitics and September eleven (pages 565–577): Jennifer Hyndman
Chapter 38 Love on the market: advertising homosexual Male P/Leisure area in modern Cape city, South Africa (pages 578–589): Glen S. Elder
Chapter 39 Women's Struggles for Sustainable Peace in Postconflict Peru: A Feminist research of Violence and alter (pages 590–606): Maureen Hays?Mitchell

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Roberts (eds), Thresholds in Feminist Geography. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Valentine, G. and Skelton, T. (2002) “I just felt different though for a long time I didn’t understand why”: emotional geographies of coming out as lesbian or gay. Paper presented to the Emotional Geographies Conference, Lancaster University, September. Wheelock, J. (1990) Husbands at Home: The Domestic Economy in a Post-industrial Society. London: Routledge. Women and Geography Study Group (1984) Geography and Gender.

J. Nast and S. M. Roberts (eds), Thresholds in Feminist Geography. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Valentine, G. and Skelton, T. (2002) “I just felt different though for a long time I didn’t understand why”: emotional geographies of coming out as lesbian or gay. Paper presented to the Emotional Geographies Conference, Lancaster University, September. Wheelock, J. (1990) Husbands at Home: The Domestic Economy in a Post-industrial Society. London: Routledge. Women and Geography Study Group (1984) Geography and Gender.

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