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Book SynopsisIn this innovative reader, Pamela Moss and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi present a unique, reflective approach to what feminist geography is and who feminist geographers are. Their carefully crafted textbook invigorates feminist debates about space, place, and knowledges with a fine balance among teaching chapters, reprints, and original essays. Offering an anthology that actually questions the very purpose of an anthology, the editors create and then negotiate a tension between reinforcing and destabilizing scholarly authority. They challenge the idea that there is one set of works that acts as the vision, interpretation, voice, and feel of feminist geography while both reproducing key previously published works and including fresh essays from a number of feminist geographers in a single volume. The first chapter frames feminism, geography, and knowledge as a melange of ideas, principles, and practices. Each of the three major sections of the volume begins with an introductory essay that pl
Trade ReviewFeminisms in Geography is a strong and useful anti-anthology advancing and deepening the impact of feminist scholars on the geographies of knowledge while respectfully acknowledging that theirs is one rhizome among many. . . . The volume should resonate with many scholars who have entered their disciplines sideways, tried to survive by zigzagging through the new subtle but nevertheless deadly minefields of what Mary Daly calls malestream (also known as mainstream) academia while clinging to their commitments to mentoring, teaching, praxis, and relevance in a corporatist knowledge machine which mostly values what can be directly harvested and marketed. * Royal Geographical Society *
Pamela Moss and Karen Falconer Al-Hindi have done an exceptional job of creating an anti-anthology of feminisms and feminist geographies. Fully aware of both the ironies and the paradoxes inherent in any attempts to contest the orthodoxies of feminist geographies in a single volume, the editors and their contributors have nonetheless produced a work that provides readers with a variety of epistemological, theoretical, and linguistic maps to negotiate the complex terrains of a range of feminist geographies. In doing so, they have contributed significantly to the important conversation about the diversity, complexity, variety, sophistication, and multiplicity of feminist geographies. This book will be an important reference work for students and seasoned researchers in feminist geography. -- Lawrence D. Berg, University of British Columbia
This challenging anti-anthology invites the reader to revisit and rethink familiar feminist arguments—as well as encounter new ways of thinking—in an attempt to destabilize what the editors fear might be a developing feminist hegemony in the Western academy. It is a wonderful contribution to the growing, contested, unconfined, and messy corpus of feminist geographical scholarship. -- Linda McDowell, Oxford University
Table of ContentsAn Introduction: Feminisms, Geographies, Knowledges Part I: Women, Geography, and Feminist Interventions Introduction to Part I: Shaping Feminist Geographies Chapter 1: On Not Excluding Half of the Human in Human Geography Chapter 2: Reflections on Poststructuralism and Feminist Empirics, Theory, and Practice Chapter 3: "On Not Excluding…" Redux Chapter 4: Complexity and Connection Chapter 5: Balancing the Margin and the Mainstream Chapter 6: Coming Home to Geography: A Personal and Intellectual Journey across the Disciplinary Divides Part II: Against Hegemony within Feminist Geography Introduction to Part II: Challenging Feminist Geographies Chapter 7: Feministische Geographien: Ein Streifzug in die Zukunft [Feminist Geographies: An Excursion into the Future] Chapter 8: Qaid-dar-qaid: Chahardeevariyon Se Mansiktaon Tak Chhidi Jung [Prisons within Prisons: Battles Stretching from the Courtyards to the Minds] Chapter 9: Languages of Collaboration Chapter 10: Still Gender Trouble in German-Speaking Feminist Geography Chapter 11: Power and Privilege: (Re)Making Feminist Geographies Part III: Spaces for Feminist Praxis Introduction to Part III: Generating Feminisms in Geographies Chapter 12: Racism out of Place: Thoughts on Whiteness and an Antiracist Geography in the New Millennium Chapter 13: Racism in Place: Another Look at Shock, Horror, and Racialization Chapter 14: "They Think You're As Stupid As Your English Is": Constructing Foreign Domestic Workers in Toronto Chapter 15: Caregivers, the Local-Global, and the Geographies of Responsibility Chapter 16: Space for Feminism in Greek Academe? Chapter 17: Feminist Pedagogy: Diversity and Praxis in a University Context Chapter 18: Feminist Theorizing as Practice Chapter 19: Practical Feminism in an Institutional Context Chapter 20: Reflections on a Feminist Collaboration: Goals, Methods, and Outcomes A Conclusion: Shared Mobility: Toward Rhizomatic Feminist Geographies
