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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... rationality after Descartes saw asdefining rational knowledge was itsindependence from the social positionof the knower. Masculinist rationality isa formof knowledge which assumes a knower whobelieves hecan separatehimself from hisbody ...
... rationality after Descartes saw asdefining rational knowledge was itsindependence from the social positionof the knower. Masculinist rationality isa formof knowledge which assumes a knower whobelieves hecan separatehimself from hisbody ...
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... rationality have argued, in orderto establish rationality, there must be a contrast with the irrational.37 Disciplinary knowledge can define itself through its own ability toknow only ifthere are others who are incapable ofknowing. For ...
... rationality have argued, in orderto establish rationality, there must be a contrast with the irrational.37 Disciplinary knowledge can define itself through its own ability toknow only ifthere are others who are incapable ofknowing. For ...
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Contents
WomenandEverydaySpaces | |
Knowledge and Critique | |
theUneasyPleasures ofPower | |
A Politics of Paradoxical Space | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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