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A Companion to Feminist Geography
Lise Nelson (Editor), Joni Seager (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0186-8
Hardcover
640 pages
January 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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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 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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