Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies - Couverture souple

Mcdowell, Linda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816633940 ISBN 13 : 9780816633944

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Linda McDowell

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Feminist approaches within the social sciences have expandedenormously since the 1960s. In addition, in recent years,geographic perspectives have become increasingly significant asfeminist recognition of the differences between women, theirdiverse experiences in different parts of the world and theimportance of location in the social construction of knowledge hasplaced varied geographies at the centre of contemporary feministand postmodern debates.

Gender, Identity and Place is an accessible and clearly writtenintroduction to the wide field of issues that have been addressedby geographers and feminist scholars. It combines the carefuldefinition and discussion of key concepts and theoreticalapproaches with a wealth of empirical detail from a wide–rangingselection of case studies and other empirical research. It isorganized on the basis of spatial scale, examining therelationships between gender and place from the body to the nation,although the links between different spatial scales are alsoemphasized. The conceptual division and spatial separation betweenthe public and private spheres and their association with men andwomen respectively has been a crucial part of the socialconstruction of gendered differences and its establishment,maintenance and reshaping from industrial urbanization to the endof the millennium is a central linking theme in the eightsubstantive chapters. The book concludes with an assessment of thepossibilities of doing feminist research.

It will be essential reading for students in geography, feministtheory, women′s studies, anthropology and sociology.

Revue de presse

"McDowell provides a sensitive and sophisticated reading of thefeminist literature through a geographer′s lens. Accessible,comprehensive, and contemporary, Gender, Identity and Placenever loses sight of the feminist political project. A landmarkbook in feminist geography!" Susan Hanson, Head of GraduateSchool of Geography, Clark University

"a text that usefully and thematically summarises an extant bodyof knowledge. Any tertiary student, new researcher or reluctantcolleague wanting to understand the contribution of feministgeography to the discipline will find easy access to that story inthe highly readable narrative that Linda McDowell has composed.Gender, Identity and Place has a strength that is oftenlacking in multiply authored or thematically focused texts. Thecohesion of the argument is not simply evident in the introductionand conclusion but is threaded through each of the substantivesections theoretically, empirically and stylistically." RobynPeace, University of Waikato, Journal of Interdisciplinary GenderStudies

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816633940
• ISBN 13: 9780816633944
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible