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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... particular author – and humanistic geography's writing is condemned by himin implicitlyfeminized terms, as too elusive, too decorative, too emotionaland too superficial. Instead, Billinge wants the plain wordsmithery ofmen – and, with ...
... particular author – and humanistic geography's writing is condemned by himin implicitlyfeminized terms, as too elusive, too decorative, too emotionaland too superficial. Instead, Billinge wants the plain wordsmithery ofmen – and, with ...
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... particular, while men assumed thattheir knowledge depended only onthe abstract thought ofthe mind, they argued that women were ruled bythepassions oftheir bodies. Inorder to legitimate the operation ofthe rational mind, then, there had ...
... particular, while men assumed thattheir knowledge depended only onthe abstract thought ofthe mind, they argued that women were ruled bythepassions oftheir bodies. Inorder to legitimate the operation ofthe rational mind, then, there had ...
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... particular, I focuson the wayinwhich a masculine Samedepends on a feminised Other; but, as this section has already argued, gender is not the only discourse throughwhich geographers' claims to power and knowledge are mediated. Race ...
... particular, I focuson the wayinwhich a masculine Samedepends on a feminised Other; but, as this section has already argued, gender is not the only discourse throughwhich geographers' claims to power and knowledge are mediated. Race ...
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... particular feminist positions argue: ... the essential difference offeminist theory mustbelooked forin the formaswell as thecontents ofits political, personal, critical, and textual practices, in the diverse oppositional stances ...
... particular feminist positions argue: ... the essential difference offeminist theory mustbelooked forin the formaswell as thecontents ofits political, personal, critical, and textual practices, in the diverse oppositional stances ...
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... and my choiceof geographies todiscuss are all marked by my particular involvement inthe academy, Iwant to insist that my book isreadin this context as partial andstrategic. 2 WOMEN AND EVERYDAY SPACES Feminists have longbeenaware of the.
... and my choiceof geographies todiscuss are all marked by my particular involvement inthe academy, Iwant to insist that my book isreadin this context as partial andstrategic. 2 WOMEN AND EVERYDAY SPACES Feminists have longbeenaware of the.
Contents
WomenandEverydaySpaces | |
Knowledge and Critique | |
theUneasyPleasures ofPower | |
A Politics of Paradoxical Space | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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