Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical KnowledgeGeography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, men's interests have structured what counts as legitimate geographical knowledge. This book offers a sustained examination of the masculinism of contemporary geographical discourses. Drawing on the work of feminist theories about the intersection of power, knowledge and subjectivity, different aspects of the discipline's masculinism are discussed in a series of essays which bring influential approaches in recent geography together with feminist accounts of the space of the everyday, the notion of a sense of place and views of landscape. In the final chapter, the spatial imagery of a variety of feminists is examined in order to argue that the geographical imagination implicit in feminist discussions of the politics of location is one example of a geography which does not deny difference in the name of a universal masculinity. |
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... desire forautonomy as typicalofthe master subject; but the assumptionofan objectivity untainted byany particularsocial position allows thiskindofrationality to claim itselfas universal. This supposed universality is what Le Doeuff ...
... desire forautonomy as typicalofthe master subject; but the assumptionofan objectivity untainted byany particularsocial position allows thiskindofrationality to claim itselfas universal. This supposed universality is what Le Doeuff ...
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... desire knowledge ofthe whole world –'theworldis our oyster',asa Presidentof the Instituteof British Geographers recently proclaimed28 – but, more importantly fortheirclaims topowerthrough knowledge, they also desire awhole knowledge ...
... desire knowledge ofthe whole world –'theworldis our oyster',asa Presidentof the Instituteof British Geographers recently proclaimed28 – but, more importantly fortheirclaims topowerthrough knowledge, they also desire awhole knowledge ...
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... Swindells and Jardine argue that'thedesire for male speech, the desire to author the case –inotherwords, to write well aboutit–is preemptive';35 it preempts other interpretations of what is being written about. The gravitas of a.
... Swindells and Jardine argue that'thedesire for male speech, the desire to author the case –inotherwords, to write well aboutit–is preemptive';35 it preempts other interpretations of what is being written about. The gravitas of a.
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... desires andfears, bothneeds andrejects, its Other, the structure oftheSame andthe Otheris contradictory, and this disrupts the exhaustiveness of the discipline's masculinism. Chapter 5 explores the instability of a form of aesthetic ...
... desires andfears, bothneeds andrejects, its Other, the structure oftheSame andthe Otheris contradictory, and this disrupts the exhaustiveness of the discipline's masculinism. Chapter 5 explores the instability of a form of aesthetic ...
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... desire asastudent to bepart ofthe academy was intense. Iwas first introduced to thepowers and the pleasures oftheory by tutors, lecturers and supervisors – almost all men – and listening to their arguments and conversationI ...
... desire asastudent to bepart ofthe academy was intense. Iwas first introduced to thepowers and the pleasures oftheory by tutors, lecturers and supervisors – almost all men – and listening to their arguments and conversationI ...
Contents
WomenandEverydaySpaces | |
Knowledge and Critique | |
theUneasyPleasures ofPower | |
A Politics of Paradoxical Space | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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