05679nam 2200805Ia 450 99621120480331620240410073554.01-78268-688-61-280-19952-097866101995250-470-79432-10-470-99689-71-4051-3736-3(CKB)1000000000342181(EBL)228533(OCoLC)299571210(SSID)ssj0000126103(PQKBManifestationID)11136923(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126103(PQKBWorkID)10030921(PQKB)10002248(MiAaPQ)EBC228533(Au-PeEL)EBL228533(CaPaEBR)ebr10158779(CaONFJC)MIL19952(OCoLC)936894997(PPN)224542702(EXLCZ)99100000000034218120040330d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to feminist geography[electronic resource] /edited by Lise Nelson & Joni Seager1st ed.Malden, MA ;Oxford Blackwell Pub.20051 online resource (637 p.)Blackwell companions to geography ;6Description based upon print version of record.1-4051-0186-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.A Companion to Feminist Geography; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I Contexts; 2 Situating Gender; 3 Anti-racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action; 4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology; 5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges; Part II Work; 6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work; 7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso; 8 Working on the Global Assembly Line9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography; 11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry; 12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization; 13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship; 14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating "Thus Far and No Further" Supportive Structures. A Case from India; Part III City; 15 Feminist Geographies of the "City": Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings16 Spaces of Change: Gender, Information Technology, and New Geographies of Mobility and Fixity in the Early Twentieth-century Information Economy17 Gender and the City: The Different Formations of Belonging; 18 Urban Space in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed; 19 Daycare Services Provision for Working Women in Japan; 20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with "Empowerment" in India and South Africa; 21 Moving beyond "Gender and GIS" to a Feminist Perspective on Information Technologies: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Women's IT Needs22 Women Outdoors: Destabilizing the Public/Private DichotomyPart IV Body; 23 Situating Bodies; 24 Bodies, State Discipline, and the Performance of Gender in a South African Women's Prison; 25 HIV/AIDS Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman's Body; 26 British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation; 27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad; Part V Environment; 28 Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the "Woman Question" in Sustainable Development to Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic29 Gender Relations beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology; 31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures; 32 Geographic Information and Women's Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example; 33 Performing a "Global Sense of Place": Women's Actions for Environmental Justice; Part VI State/Nation; 34 Feminist Political Geographies; 35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century36 Virility and Violation in the US "War on Terrorism"A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today. Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers. Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation. Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in the field. Each chapter can be read for its own distinctiBlackwell companions to geography ;6.Feminist geographyWomenSocial conditionsWomenEmploymentWomen and city planningWomen and the environmentFeminist geography.WomenSocial conditions.WomenEmployment.Women and city planning.Women and the environment.305.42Nelson Lise930731Seager Joni930732MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996211204803316A companion to feminist geography2093476UNISA