Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies

Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies
Author: Anindita Datta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1075
Release: 2020-04-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000051854
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This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary gender and feminist geographies in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It features 48 new contributions from both experienced and emerging scholars, artists and activists who critically review and appraise current spatial politics. Each chapter advances the future development of feminist geography and gender studies, as well as empirical evidence of changing relationships between gender, power, place and space. Following an introduction by the Editors, the handbook presents original work organized into four parts which engage with relevant issues including violence, resistance, agency and desire: Establishing feminist geographies Placing feminist geographies Engaging feminist geographies Doing feminist geographies The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in feminist geography, gender studies and geographical thought.

Doing Gender, Doing Geography

Doing Gender, Doing Geography
Author: Saraswati Raju
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136197354
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Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by being conservative in its choice of focus and orthodox in methodology, has been unable to destabilise the established disciplinary order. However, with younger scholars becoming increasingly interested in studying gender in geography, novel and innovative methods that include combinations of quantitative and qualitative analyses, visual sources and in-depth case studies are being tried out and accepted in geography despite its masculine legacy. This pioneering study brings together Indian geographers’ contributions to understanding gender, and through them, seeks to enrich the discipline of geography. It engages with the recent ‘spatial turn’ in the social sciences, which has reclaimed the explanatory power of space and place in social theory that had been nearly lost to deconstructive postmodernist scholarship. The volume draws entirely from the Indian scholarship, showcasing contextualised knowledge production, but hopes to initiate a a dialogue with scholars elsewhere working with feminist methodologies.

Gender, Geography and Empire

Gender, Geography and Empire
Author: Cheryl McEwan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351753142
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This title was first published 2000: This text is intended to draw together two important developments in contemporary geography: firstly, the recognition of the need to write critical histories of geographical thought and, particularly, the relationship between modern geography and European imperialism; and secondly, the attempt by feminist geographers to countervail the absence of women in the histories. The author focuses on the narratives of British women travellers in West Africa between 1840 and 1915, exploring their contributions to British imperial culture, teh ways in which they wer empowered in the imperial context by virtue of both "race" and class, and their various representations of West African landscapes and peoples. The book argues for the inclusion of women and their experiences in histories of geographical thought and explores the possibilities and problems of combining feminist and post-colonial approaches to these histories.

Feminist Spaces

Feminist Spaces
Author: Ann M. Oberhauser
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317408675
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Feminist Spaces introduces students and academic researchers to major themes and empirical studies in feminist geography. It examines new areas of feminist research including: embodiment, sexuality, masculinity, intersectional analysis, and environment and development. In addition to considering gender as a primary subject, this book provides a comprehensive overview of feminist geography by highlighting contemporary research conducted from a feminist framework which goes beyond the theme of gender to include issues such as social justice, activism, (dis)ability, and critical pedagogy. Through case studies, this book challenges the construction of dichotomies that tend to oversimplify categories such as developed and developing, urban and rural, and the Global North and South, without accounting for the fluid and intersecting aspects of gender, space, and place. The chapters weave theoretical and empirical material together to meet the needs of students new to feminism, as well as those with a feminist background but new to geography, through attention to basic geographical concepts in the opening chapter. The text encourages readers to think of feminist geography as addressing not only gender, but a set of methodological and theoretical perspectives applied to a range of topics and issues. A number of interactive exercises, activities, and ‘boxes’ or case studies, illustrate concepts and supplement the text. These prompts encourage students to explore and analyze their own positionality, as well as motivate them to change and impact their surroundings. Feminist Spaces emphasizes activism and critical engagement with diverse communities to recognize this tradition in the field of feminism, as well as within the discipline of geography. Combining theory and practice as a central theme, this text will serve graduate level students as an introduction to the field of feminist geography, and will be of interest to students in related fields such as environmental studies, development, and women’s and gender studies.

Feminist Geography Unbound: Discount, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures

Feminist Geography Unbound: Discount, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures
Author: Banu Görkariksel
Publisher: Gender, Feminism, and Geograph
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781949199871
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A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography.

Space, Place and Gender

Space, Place and Gender
Author: Doreen Massey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2013-04-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745667759
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This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the author reflects on the development of these ideas and outlines her current position on these important issues. The book is organized around the three themes of space, place and gender. It traces the development of ideas about the social nature of space and place and the relation of both to issues of gender and debates within feminism. It is debates in these areas which have been crucial in bringing geography to the centre of social sciences thinking in recent years, and this book includes writings that have been fundamental to that process. Beginning with the economy and social structures of production, it develops a wider notion of spatiality as the product of intersecting social relations. In turn this has lead to conceptions of 'place' as essentially open and hybrid, always provisional and contested. These themes intersect with much current thinking about identity within both feminism and cultural studies. Each of the themes is preceded by a section which reflects on the development of ideas and sets out the context of their production. The introduction assesses the current state of play and argues for the close relationship of new thinking on each of these themes. This book will be of interest to students in geography, social theory, women's studies and cultural studies.

A Companion to Feminist Geography

A Companion to Feminist Geography
Author: Lise Nelson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1405137363
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A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth anddiversity of this vibrant and substantive field. Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape ofgeographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feministgeography today. Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers. Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and thenation. Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in thefield. Each chapter can be read for its own distinctivecontribution.

Gender and Rural Geography

Gender and Rural Geography
Author: Jo Little
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-08-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138432994
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Geography, rurality and change -- Confronting gender in rural geography -- The chapters -- 2. Feminist theory and rural geography -- Introduction -- Feminist geography: early development -- Early feminist geography and the rural -- Feminist geographies and gender identity -- Gender identity and rural geography -- Conclusion -- 3. Gender, nature and the rural landscape -- Introduction -- Gender, rurality and the social construction of nature -- Masculinity and the control of nature -- Women, nature and the rural environment -- Conclusion -- 4. Gender and the rural community -- Introduction -- The community in rural geography -- Rural community studies and the recognition of gender difference -- Gender and the cultural construction of the rural community -- Gender, community and village institutions -- The gendered nature of community spaces -- Conclusion -- 5. Gender, employment and the rural labour market -- Introduction -- The rural labour market -- Rural women's employment -- Women's employment and the rural household -- Women's employment and policy -- Conclusion -- 6. Power, gender and rural governance -- Introduction -- Gender and the rural state -- New rural governance and gender relations -- Rural regeneration, Rural Challenge and new rural governance -- Gender and Rural Challenge -- Gender, politics and the rural community -- Conclusion -- 7. Gender, sexuality and rurality -- Introduction -- Rurality and representations of sexuality -- Homosexual lifestyles in the countryside -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- The continuing relevance of gender in researching the rural landscape and society? -- Gender identity and research methodology -- Further research -- Bibliography

Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings

Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings
Author: Linda McDowell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317836189
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'Space Gender Knowledge' is an innovative and comprehensive introduction to the geographies of gender and the gendered nature of spatial relations. It examines the major issues raised by women's movements and academic feminism, and outlines the main shifts in feminist geographical work, from the geography of women to the impact of post-structuralism. In making their selection, the editors have drawn on a wide range of interdisciplinary material, ranging across spatial scales from the body to the globe. The book presents influential arguments for the importance of the intersection between space and gender. Looking both at geography and beyond the discipline, it explores the gendered construction of space and the spatial construction of gender. Divided into a number of conceptual sections, each prefaced by an editorial introduction, this reader includes extracts from both landmark texts and less well-known works, making it an indispensable introduction to this dynamic field of study.

Poetry, Geography, Gender

Poetry, Geography, Gender
Author: Alice Entwistle
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2013-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0708326706
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Poetry, Geography, Gender examines how questions of place, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of some of Wales' best known contemporary poets, including Gillian Clarke, Gwyneth Lewis, Ruth Bidgood and Sheenagh Pugh. Merging traditional literary criticism with cultural-political and geographical analysis, Alice Entwistle shows how writers' different senses of relationship with Wales, its languages, history and imaginative, as well as political, geography feeds the form as well as the content of their poetry. Her innovative critical study thus takes particular interest in the ways in which author, text and territory help to inform and produce each other in the culturally complex and confident small nation that is twenty-first century Wales.