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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... suggest amore fundamental resistance to women as subjects and authors of geographicalknowledge than simply thefact that women are assumed to beinterested in differentissues frommen. In fact, as Liz Bondi remarkedinarecent review of ...
... suggest amore fundamental resistance to women as subjects and authors of geographicalknowledge than simply thefact that women are assumed to beinterested in differentissues frommen. In fact, as Liz Bondi remarkedinarecent review of ...
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... . Feminist geographers havebegun to suggest that these arguments about masculinist rationality can and should be applied togeography.26 Several have commented that, inthe words of Liz Bondi and Mona Domosh, geographers too see.
... . Feminist geographers havebegun to suggest that these arguments about masculinist rationality can and should be applied togeography.26 Several have commented that, inthe words of Liz Bondi and Mona Domosh, geographers too see.
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... suggesting thatno man canescape the masculinities thatI identify ascentralto geography;nor that women cannot occupy amasculineposition; northatwomen are incapable of producing geographical knowledge. Rather, I argue that both.
... suggesting thatno man canescape the masculinities thatI identify ascentralto geography;nor that women cannot occupy amasculineposition; northatwomen are incapable of producing geographical knowledge. Rather, I argue that both.
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... suggest that the conflict generatedby such debates is misplaced. Perhaps, as Snitow argues, itis practically impossible to choose one strategy over the other: feminism has always ... suggests that this is because the politics of many women.
... suggest that the conflict generatedby such debates is misplaced. Perhaps, as Snitow argues, itis practically impossible to choose one strategy over the other: feminism has always ... suggests that this is because the politics of many women.
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The Limits of Geographical Knowledge Gillian Rose. suggests that this is because the politics of many women of colour ... suggest that strategic mobilityisactually feminism'sgreatest strength. If masculinity is itself fluid and diverse ...
The Limits of Geographical Knowledge Gillian Rose. suggests that this is because the politics of many women of colour ... suggest that strategic mobilityisactually feminism'sgreatest strength. If masculinity is itself fluid and diverse ...
Contents
WomenandEverydaySpaces | |
Knowledge and Critique | |
theUneasyPleasures ofPower | |
A Politics of Paradoxical Space | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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