Description
Book Synopsisaeo Very accessible and wide--ranging introduction to feminist perspectives on geography. aeo Clearly written with careful attention paid to defining key concepts and theories in the field.
Trade Review"McDowell provides a sensitive and sophisticated reading of the feminist literature through a geographer's lens. Accessible, comprehensive, and contemporary,
Gender, Identity and Place never loses sight of the feminist political project. A landmark book in feminist geography!"
Susan Hanson, Head of Graduate School of Geography, Clark University "a text that usefully and thematically summarises an extant body of knowledge. Any tertiary student, new researcher or reluctant colleague wanting to understand the contribution of feminist geography to the discipline will find easy access to that story in the highly readable narrative that Linda McDowell has composed. Gender, Identity and Place has a strength that is often lacking in multiply authored or thematically focused texts. The cohesion of the argument is not simply evident in the introduction and conclusion but is threaded through each of the substantive sections theoretically, empirically and stylistically." Robyn Peace, University of Waikato, Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Table of ContentsList of Plates.
List of Figures and Tables.
1. Introduction: Place and Gender.
2. In and Out of Place: Bodies and Embodiment.
3. Home, Place and Identity.
4. Community, City and Locality.
5. Work/Workplaces.
6. In Public: the Street and Spaces of Pleasure.
7. Gendering the Nation-State.
8. Displacements.
9. Postscript: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Feminist Research.
References.
Index.
