Description
Book SynopsisGeography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, mena s interests have structured what counts as legitimate geographical knowledge.
Trade Review'It's very personal, very courageous, and very challenging.'
Derek Gregory, Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia '.subtle and sophisticated.this is an important book.' The Geographical Journal
'This is an important book in the development of feminist geography.' Geography
'... A greatly needed assessment of recent work influenced by the fertile connections between feminism and geography.' Progress in Human Geography
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.
1. Feminism and Geography: An Introduction.
2. Women and Everyday Spaces.
3. No Place for Women?.
4. The Geographical Imagination: Knowledge and Critique.
5. Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power.
6. Spatial Divisions and Other Spaces: Production, Reproduction and Beyond.
7. A Politics of Paradoxical Space.
Notes to Chapters.
