A Companion to Feminist Geography

A Companion to Feminist Geography 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.
The Companion, 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.

Spis treści:
Notes on Contributors.
1 Introduction: Lise Nelson and Joni Seager.
Part I: Contexts.
2 Situating Gender: Liz Bondi and Joyce Davidson.
3 Anti–racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action: Audrey Kobayashi.
4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology: Pamela Moss.
5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges: Brenda Yeoh.
Part II: Work.
6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work: Vicki Lawson and Kim England.
7 Shea Butter, Globalization and Women of Burkina Faso: Judith Carney and Marlene Elias.
8 Working on the Global Assembly Line: Altha Cravey.
9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver Canada: Geraldine Pratt.
10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography: Rachel Silvey.
11 The Ch anging Roles of Female Labour in Economic Prosperity and Decline: The Case of Istanbul Manufacturing Industry: Adya Eraydin and Asuman Erendil.
12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: The Darker Side of Globalization: Vidya Samarasinghe.
13 The Changing Gender of Entrepreneurship: Susan Hanson and Megan Blake.
14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating “Thus Far and No Further” Supportive Structures: A Case from India: Saraswati Raju.
Part III City/ Built Environments/ Community.
15 Feminist Geographies of the ‘City’: Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings: Valerie Preston and Ebru Ustundag.
16 Spaces of change: Gender, information technology and new geographies of mobility and fixity in the early Twentieth–Century Information Economy: Kate Boyer.
17 Gender and the city: The different formations of belonging: Tovi Fenster.
18 Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed: Hille Koskela.
19 Day care services provision for working women in Japan: Hiroo Kamiya.
20 Organizing from the margins: Grappling with “Empowerment” in India and South Africa: Richa Nagar and Amanda Lock Swarr.
21 Moving Beyond “Gender and GIS” to a Feminist Perspective on Information Technologies: The impact of welfare reform on women’s IT needs: Melissa Gilbert and Michele Masucci.
22 Women outdoors: Destabilizing the public/private dichotomy: Phil Hubbard.
Part IV Body/ Identities.
23 Situating Bodies: Robyn Longhurst.
24 Geographies of Carceral Institutions: Violence and Masculinity in a South African Women’s Prison: Teresa Dirsuweit.
25 HIV / AIDS Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman’s Body: Kawango Argot.
26 Marking the Nation: Women’s Dress, Visibility and Presence, the Case of Pakistani Muslim Women: Robina Mohammad.
27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad: Jasbir Puar.
Part V: Nature/ Environment.
28 List ening to the landscapes of Mama Tingo: from the “woman question” in sustainable development to feminist political ecology in Zambrana – Chacuey, Dominican Republic: Dianne Rocheleau.
29 Gender relations beyond farm fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods: Anoja Wickramasinghe.
30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology: Jody Emel and Julie Urbanik.
31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures: Jennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang.
32 Geographic Information and Women’s Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example: Sara McLafferty.
33 Performing a “Global Sense of Place”: Women’s Actions for Environmental Justice: Giovanna Di Chiro.
Part VI: State/ Nation/Public Power.
34 Feminist Political Geographies: Eleonore Kofman.
35 Gender, Race and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the 19th Century: Mona Domosh.
36 Virility and violation in the U.S. “War on terrorism”: Matthew Hannah.
37 Feminist geopolitics and 9/11: Jennifer Hyndman.
38 Love for Sale: Marketing Gay Male P/leisure space in contemporary Cape Town, South Africa: Glen Elder.
39 Reconstructing Lives, Reconciling Society: A Feminist Analysis of Political Initiatives Undertaken by Marginalized Women in Post–Civil War Peru: Maureen Hays–Mitchell

Nota biograficzna:
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).

Okładka tylna:
A Companion to Feminist Geography 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.
The Companion, 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.