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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... Looking atLandscape: theUneasyPleasures ofPower 6 SpatialDivisions andOther Spaces: Production, Reproduction and Beyond 7 A Politics of Paradoxical Space Notes Index ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many people have helped me to write this book.
... Looking atLandscape: theUneasyPleasures ofPower 6 SpatialDivisions andOther Spaces: Production, Reproduction and Beyond 7 A Politics of Paradoxical Space Notes Index ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many people have helped me to write this book.
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... political issues with which geographers are already broadly familiar.17It seems tomethat women's exclusionis not only a questionofthethemes of research, nor even ofthenew concepts withwhich feministswork to organize those themes, but ...
... political issues with which geographers are already broadly familiar.17It seems tomethat women's exclusionis not only a questionofthethemes of research, nor even ofthenew concepts withwhich feministswork to organize those themes, but ...
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... political theory and history,feministshave argued that the notion of reason as it developed from the seventeenth century onwards isnot gender neutral.25 Onthe contrary,itworksin tandem withwhite bourgeois heterosexual masculinities. To ...
... political theory and history,feministshave argued that the notion of reason as it developed from the seventeenth century onwards isnot gender neutral.25 Onthe contrary,itworksin tandem withwhite bourgeois heterosexual masculinities. To ...
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... political meaningand theneed to tear downthe category “woman” and dismantle its alltoosolid history'.42 Thestrategy on one side of thisdivideis to celebrate all thatis associated with the feminine. Formen, women's closeness totheir ...
... political meaningand theneed to tear downthe category “woman” and dismantle its alltoosolid history'.42 Thestrategy on one side of thisdivideis to celebrate all thatis associated with the feminine. Formen, women's closeness totheir ...
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... that whatshe terms 'U.S. third world feminism' is not as concerned as much as white feminism about choosing the single most politically correct positionof critique.43 She suggests that this is because the politics of many women.
... that whatshe terms 'U.S. third world feminism' is not as concerned as much as white feminism about choosing the single most politically correct positionof critique.43 She suggests that this is because the politics of many women.
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WomenandEverydaySpaces | |
Knowledge and Critique | |
theUneasyPleasures ofPower | |
A Politics of Paradoxical Space | |
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