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Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context


Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context

Paperback by Oberhauser, Ann; Fluri, Jennifer; Whitson, Risa; Mollett, Sharlene (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context

£49.99

ISBN:
9781138924536
Publication Date:
10 Oct 2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
230 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 29 May 2024
Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context

Description

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.

Contents

List of Figures List of Boxes About the authors Acknowledgments 1 Engaging Feminist Spaces: Introduction and Overview Ann M. Oberhauser, Jennifer L. Fluri, Risa Whitson, and Sharlene Mollett 2 The Body, Performance, and Space Jennifer L. Fluri 3 Spaces of Culture and Identity Production: Home, Consumption, and the Media Risa Whitson 4 Gendering the Right to the City Risa Whitson 5 Gendered Work and Economic Livelihoods Ann M. Oberhauser 6 Feminist Political Geography and Geopolitics Jennifer L. Fluri 7 Environmental Struggles are Feminist Struggles: Feminist Political Ecology as Development Critique Sharlene Mollett 8 Feminist Spaces: Overview and Reflections Sharlene Mollett, Jennifer L. Fluri, Risa Whitson, and Ann M. Oberhauser Bibliography Index

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