Thresholds in Feminist Geography Difference, Methodology, Representation

, by Jones, John Paul, III; Nast, Heidi J.; Roberts, Susan M.; Ahrentzen, Sherry; Falconer Al-Hindi, Karen; Domosh, Mona; Dyck, Isabel; Gilbert, Melissa R.; Hanson, Susan; Huffman, Nikolas H.; Jones III, John Paul; Kay, Jeanne; Kobayashi, Audrey; Laws, Glenda;

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ISBN: 9780847684366 | 0847684369
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/10/1997

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This innovative collection explores the concept of space as it relates to feminist studies. Utilizing a range of theoretical perspectives, a distinguished group of international scholars crosses over the thresholds of difference, methodology, and representation that challenge feminist geography.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thresholds in Feminist Geography: Difference, Methodology, Representation
Difference
Introduction to Part 1: The Paradox of Difference and Diversity (or, Why the Threshold Keeps Moving)	p. 3
Community, Place, and Identity	p. 11
Identity, Space, and Politics: A Critique of the Poverty Debates	p. 29
Women's Life Courses, Spatial Mobility, and State Policies	p. 47
Making Space: Separatism and Difference	p. 65
The Meaning of Home Workplaces for Women	p. 77
Hearing from Quiet Students: The Politics of Silence and Voice in Geography Classrooms	p. 93
Methodology
Introduction to Part 2: As the World Turns: New Horizons in Feminist Geographic Methodologies	p. 119
Counting Women's Work: Intersection of Time and Space	p. 129
Feminist Critical Realism: A Method for Gender and Work Studies in Geography	p. 145
The Home as "Field": Households and Homework in Rural Appalachia	p. 165
Dialogue with Difference: A Tale of Two Studies	p. 183
Exploring Methodological Borderlands through Oral Narratives	p. 203
With "Stout Boots and a Stout Heart": Historical Methodology and Feminist Geography	p. 225
Representation
Introduction to Part 3: Marginal Notes on Representations	p. 241
Charting the Other Maps: Cartography and Visual Methods in Feminist Research	p. 255
For Whom Shall We Write? What Voice Shall We Use? Which Story Shall We Tell?	p. 285
Redefining the Barricades: Latina Lesbian Politics and the Creation of an Oppositional Public Sphere	p. 319
Gender, "Race," and Diaspora: Racialized Identities of Emigrant Irish Women	p. 339
Sweet Surrender, but What's the Gender? Nature and the Body in the Writings of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Women	p. 361
The Cultural Construction of Rurality: Gender Identities and the Rural Idyll	p. 383
Conclusion: Crossing Thresholds	p. 393
Index	p. 407
About the Contributors	p. 425
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