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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review"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."
Cindi Katz, Graduate Centre, City University of New York "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." Reference and Research Book News, Vol 20/1, Feb 2005
"An extensive resource written by influential feminist thinkers and practitioners...All Blackwell Companions are relevant to academics, researchers and students in their disciplines and beyond, but this volume on feminist geography will have more general appeal" Reference Reviews
Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xviii
1 Introduction 1
Lise Nelson and Joni Seager
Part I Contexts 13
2 Situating Gender 15
Liz Bondi and Joyce Davidson
3 Anti-racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action 32
Audrey Kobayashi
4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology 41
Pamela Moss
5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges 60
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Part II Work 75
6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work 77
Kim England and Victoria Lawson
7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso 93
Marlène Elias and Judith Carney
8 Working on the Global Assembly Line 109
Altha J. Cravey
9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada 123
Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre
10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography 138
Rachel Silvey
11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry 150
Ayda Eraydýn and Asuman Turkun-Erendil
12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization 166
Vidyamali Samarasinghe
13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship 179
Susan Hanson and Megan Blake
14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating “Thus Far and No Further” Supportive Structures. A Case from India 194
Saraswati Raju
Part III City 209
15 Feminist Geographies of the “City”: Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings 211
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 228
Kate Boyer
17 Gender and the City: The Different Formations of Belonging 242
Tovi Fenster
18 Urban Space in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed 257
Hille Koskela
19 Daycare Services Provision for Working Women in Japan 271
Kamiya Hiroo
20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with “Empowerment” in India and South Africa 291
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 305
Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci
22 Women Outdoors: Destabilizing the Public/Private Dichotomy 322
Phil Hubbard
Part IV Body 335
23 Situating Bodies 337
Robyn Longhurst
24 Bodies, State Discipline, and the Performance of Gender in a South African Women’s Prison 350
Teresa Dirsuweit
25 HIV/AIDS Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman’s Body 363
Kawango Agot
26 British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation 379
Robina Mohammad
27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad 398
Jasbir Kaur Puar
Part V Environment 417
28 Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the “Woman Question” in Sustainable Development
to Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana–Chacuey, Dominican Republic 419
Dianne Rocheleau
29 Gender Relations beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods 434
Anoja Wickramasinghe
30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology 445
Jody Emel and Julie Urbanik
31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures 458
Jennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang
32 Geographic Information and Women’s Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example 486
Sara McLafferty
33 Performing a “Global Sense of Place”: Women’s Actions for Environmental Justice 496
Giovanna Di Chiro
Part VI State/Nation 517
34 Feminist Political Geographies 519
Eleonore Kofman
35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 534
Mona Domosh
36 Virility and Violation in the US “War on Terrorism” 550
Matthew G. Hannah
37 Feminist Geopolitics and September 11 565
Jennifer Hyndman
38 Love for Sale: Marketing Gay Male P/Leisure Space in Contemporary Cape Town, South Africa 578
Glen S. Elder
39 Women’s Struggles for Sustainable Peace in Post-conflict Peru: A Feminist Analysis of Violence and Change 590
Maureen Hays-Mitchell
Index 607
