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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... developed, which offered a critique not only of what geography looked at, but also of the concepts used by the discipline to organize its knowledge in order to exclude what it saw aswomen's issues. This critiquehas surely been the most ...
... developed, which offered a critique not only of what geography looked at, but also of the concepts used by the discipline to organize its knowledge in order to exclude what it saw aswomen's issues. This critiquehas surely been the most ...
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... developed through studies ofa particularform of masculine rationalitythat emerged during the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. I will outlinethis feminist work here, because it beginstosuggest aspectsofthe masculinism ...
... developed through studies ofa particularform of masculine rationalitythat emerged during the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. I will outlinethis feminist work here, because it beginstosuggest aspectsofthe masculinism ...
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... develop this argument by invoking thespace most associated with the feminine by some kindsofwhite feminism – the private, the domestic–andthe kind of sociality thoughttooccur there – emotional,relational andembodied –andcontrast them ...
... develop this argument by invoking thespace most associated with the feminine by some kindsofwhite feminism – the private, the domestic–andthe kind of sociality thoughttooccur there – emotional,relational andembodied –andcontrast them ...
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... developed ina series ofkeypapers in theearly 1980s, and consolidated inthe collectionofessays publishedin1985 entitled SocialRelations and Spatial Structures,13 and its general claim isnow commonplace among many geographers. It was ...
... developed ina series ofkeypapers in theearly 1980s, and consolidated inthe collectionofessays publishedin1985 entitled SocialRelations and Spatial Structures,13 and its general claim isnow commonplace among many geographers. It was ...
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Contents
WomenandEverydaySpaces | |
Knowledge and Critique | |
theUneasyPleasures ofPower | |
A Politics of Paradoxical Space | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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