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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... produce such knowledge. They have insistedthat geography holds a series of unstated assumptions about what men and women do,and that thediscipline concentrates on thespaces, places andlandscapes thatitsees as men's.9 Thisbias in ...
... produce such knowledge. They have insistedthat geography holds a series of unstated assumptions about what men and women do,and that thediscipline concentrates on thespaces, places andlandscapes thatitsees as men's.9 Thisbias in ...
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... produce 'transcendent visions' of neutral truth untouched by the contexts in which they are produced.27 Geographers desire knowledge ofthe whole world –'theworldis our oyster',asa Presidentof the Instituteof British Geographers recently ...
... produce 'transcendent visions' of neutral truth untouched by the contexts in which they are produced.27 Geographers desire knowledge ofthe whole world –'theworldis our oyster',asa Presidentof the Instituteof British Geographers recently ...
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... produce. Another unfortunate consequence of that style'sdominance is that most geographical writing exemplifies Valerie Solonas'sverdict on the patriarchy:'atbest, an utter bore'.36It'sall the Same. As I have mentioned, though,a Same ...
... produce. Another unfortunate consequence of that style'sdominance is that most geographical writing exemplifies Valerie Solonas'sverdict on the patriarchy:'atbest, an utter bore'.36It'sall the Same. As I have mentioned, though,a Same ...
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The Limits of Geographical Knowledge Gillian Rose. produce reports of their travels which counted as geography, and that was the reason why they refused for so long to admit women as members:38 only the 'objective' gaze of white men ...
The Limits of Geographical Knowledge Gillian Rose. produce reports of their travels which counted as geography, and that was the reason why they refused for so long to admit women as members:38 only the 'objective' gaze of white men ...
Contents
WomenandEverydaySpaces | |
Knowledge and Critique | |
theUneasyPleasures ofPower | |
A Politics of Paradoxical Space | |
Notes | |
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