{"product_id":"a-companion-to-feminist-geography-isbn-9781394349524","title":"A Companion to Feminist Geography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Feminist Geography\u003c\/i\u003e captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShowcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCharts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributions from 50 leading international scholars in the field.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach chapter can be read for its own distinctive contribution.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Feminist Geography\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCindi Katz, City University of New York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLise Nelson and Joni Seager\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Contexts 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Situating Gender 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiz Bondi and Joyce Davidson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Anti-racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAudrey Kobayashi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePamela Moss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrenda S. A. Yeoh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Work 75\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKim England and Victoria Lawson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarlène Elias and Judith Carney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Working on the Global Assembly Line 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAltha J. Cravey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada 123\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRachel Silvey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAyda Eraydýn and Asuman Turkun-Erendil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVidyamali Samarasinghe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship 179\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Hanson and Megan Blake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating \"Thus Far and No Further\" Supportive Structures. A Case from India 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaraswati Raju\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III City 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Feminist Geographies of the \"City\": Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings 211\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eValerie Preston and Ebru Ustundag\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Spaces of Change: Gender, Information Technology, and New Geographies of Mobility and Fixity in the Early Twentieth-century Information Economy 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKate Boyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Gender and the City: The Different Formations of Belonging 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTovi Fenster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Urban Space in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed 257\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHille Koskela\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Daycare Services Provision for Working Women in Japan 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKamiya Hiroo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with \"Empowerment\" in India and South Africa 291\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRicha Nagar and Amanda Lock Swarr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Moving beyond \"Gender and GIS\" to a Feminist Perspective on Information Technologies: The Impact\u003cbr\u003eof Welfare Reform on Women's IT Needs 305\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Women Outdoors: Destabilizing the Public\/Private Dichotomy 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhil Hubbard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Body 335\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Situating Bodies 337\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobyn Longhurst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Bodies, State Discipline, and the Performance of Gender in a South African Women's Prison 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeresa Dirsuweit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 HIV\/AIDS Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman's Body 363\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKawango Agot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation 379\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobina Mohammad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJasbir Kaur Puar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Environment 417\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the \"Woman Question\" in Sustainable Development\u003cbr\u003eto Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana–Chacuey, Dominican Republic 419\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDianne Rocheleau\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Gender Relations beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods 434\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnoja Wickramasinghe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology 445\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJody Emel and Julie Urbanik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures 458\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Geographic Information and Women's Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example 486\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSara McLafferty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Performing a \"Global Sense of Place\": Women's Actions for Environmental Justice 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGiovanna Di Chiro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI State\/Nation 517\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Feminist Political Geographies 519\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleonore Kofman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 534\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMona Domosh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Virility and Violation in the US \"War on Terrorism\" 550\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthew G. Hannah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Feminist Geopolitics and September 11 565\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Hyndman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Love for Sale: Marketing Gay Male P\/Leisure Space in Contemporary Cape Town, South Africa 578\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlen S. Elder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Women's Struggles for Sustainable Peace in Post-conflict Peru: A Feminist Analysis of Violence and Change 590\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaureen Hays-Mitchell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCindi Katz, Graduate Centre, City University of New York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Book News,\u003c\/i\u003e Vol 20\/1, Feb 2005\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An extensive resource written by influential feminist thinkers and practitioners...All \u003ci\u003eBlackwell Companions\u003c\/i\u003e are relevant to academics, researchers and students in their disciplines and beyond, but this volume on feminist geography will have more general appeal\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLise Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eWomen Defending the Plaza: Gender, Citizenship and the Politics of Place.\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoni Seager\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Atlas of Women in the World\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and \u003ci\u003ePutting Women in Place\u003c\/i\u003e (co-author, 2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Feminist Geography\u003c\/i\u003e captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. It shows how feminist geography has altered the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s, reframing fundamental approaches across a range of disciplines, including architecture, environmental studies, and geography. Further, it situates feminist geography within the context of geographical thought and within interdisciplinary feminist debates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring contributors from around the world, explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today, tracing the emergence of key debates in the field. The volume reflects the various sites and locations from which feminist geographical analysis is being produced; and it includes a systematic assessment of feminist contributions to major sub-fields in geography, covering both established subjects, such as labor, urban, and environmental geography, and emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988606828773,"sku":"NP9781394349524","price":50.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781394349524.jpg?v=1761780948","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-feminist-geography-isbn-9781394349524","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}