![]() A Companion to Feminist Geography
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0186-8
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640 pages
January 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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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 Changing 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 Listening 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




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