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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... spatial divisions of labourasits starting point,andthese reappear in chapter 6. I now teach cultural geography and itsworkon landscape, which forms chapter 5. Chapter 3 focuses in defiance on what was damned as worthlessby my ...
... spatial divisions of labourasits starting point,andthese reappear in chapter 6. I now teach cultural geography and itsworkon landscape, which forms chapter 5. Chapter 3 focuses in defiance on what was damned as worthlessby my ...
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... spatial politics: 'the dichotomy between the privateandthe public is central to almost two centuries of feminist struggle; it is, ultimately, whatthefeminist movement is about'.8 This understanding of the distinction between public and ...
... spatial politics: 'the dichotomy between the privateandthe public is central to almost two centuries of feminist struggle; it is, ultimately, whatthefeminist movement is about'.8 This understanding of the distinction between public and ...
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... spatial mobility, feminist timegeographers stress the extent to which women's movements in public space are constrainedbythe ideological claimthat women's space is the private domestic arena. However, timegeography and feminism arenot ...
... spatial mobility, feminist timegeographers stress the extent to which women's movements in public space are constrainedbythe ideological claimthat women's space is the private domestic arena. However, timegeography and feminism arenot ...
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... spatial geography with which this chapter isconcerned – timegeography –was part of geography's recourse to social theory, mentioned in the previous chapter. In the early 1980s, manygeographers were arguing that space was a universal ...
... spatial geography with which this chapter isconcerned – timegeography –was part of geography's recourse to social theory, mentioned in the previous chapter. In the early 1980s, manygeographers were arguing that space was a universal ...
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... Spatial Structures,13 and its general claim isnow commonplace among many geographers. It was argued by Pred andbyThrift,and more cautiouslyby GregoryandGiddens, thatstructurationism couldbe represented diagrammatically by timegeography ...
... Spatial Structures,13 and its general claim isnow commonplace among many geographers. It was argued by Pred andbyThrift,and more cautiouslyby GregoryandGiddens, thatstructurationism couldbe represented diagrammatically by timegeography ...
Contents
WomenandEverydaySpaces | |
Knowledge and Critique | |
theUneasyPleasures ofPower | |
A Politics of Paradoxical Space | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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