A Companion To Feminist Geography

A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today. Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers. Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation. Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in the field. Each chapter can be read for its own distinctive contribution.

Lise Nelson is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, where she teaches courses on globalization, politics, and gender in Latin America and the United States. She is currently completing a book, Women Defending the Plaza: Gender, Citizenship and the Politics of Place.

Joni Seager is Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the co-founder of a feminist environmental NGO, the “Committee on Women, Population, and Environment.” Her previous publications include The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World (2003) and Putting Women in Place (co-author, 2001).

List of Contributors

ix

Acknowledgments

xviii

1 Introduction

1

(12)

Lise Nelson and Joni Seager

Part I Contexts

13

(62)

2 Situating Gender

15

(17)

Liz Bondi and Joyce Davidson

3 Anti-racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action

32

(9)

Audrey Kobayashi

4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology

41

(19)

Pamela Moss

5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges

60

(17)

Brenda S.A. Yeoh

Part II Work

75

(134)

6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work

77

(16)

Kim England and Victoria Lawson

7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso

93

(16)

Marlène Elias and Judith Carney

8 Working on the Global Assembly Line

109

(14)

Altha J. Cravey

9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada

123

(15)

Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre

10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography

138

(12)

Rachel Silvey

11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry

150

(16)

Ayda Eraydtn and Asuman Turkun-Erendil

12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization

166

(13)

Vidyamali Samarasinghe

13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship

179

(15)

Susan Hanson and Megan Blake

14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating "Thus Far and No Further" Supportive Structures. A Case from India

194

(15)

Saraswati Raju

Part III City

209

(126)

15 Feminist Geographies of the "City": Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings

211

(17)

Valerie Preston and Ebru Ustundag

16 Spaces of Change: Gender, Information Technology, and New Geographies of Mobility and Fixity in the Early Twentieth-century Information Economy

228

(14)

Kate Boyer

17 Gender and the City: The Different Formations of Belonging

242

(15)

Tovi Fenster

18 Urban Space in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed

257

(14)

Hille Koskela

19 Daycare Services Provision for Working Women in Japan

271

(20)

Kamiya Hiroo

20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with "Empowerment" in India and South Africa

291

(14)

Richa Nagar and Amanda Lock Swarr

21 Moving beyond "Gender and GIS" to a Feminist Perspective on Information Technologies: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Women's IT Needs

305

(17)

Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci

22 Women Outdoors: Destabilizing the Public/Private Dichotomy

322

(13)

Phil Hubbard

Part IV Body

335

(82)

23 Situating Bodies

337

(13)

Robyn Longhurst

24 Bodies, State Discipline, and the Performance of Gender in a South African Women's Prison

350

(13)

Teresa Dirsuweit

25 HIV/AIDS Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman's Body

363

(16)

Kawango Agot

26 British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation

379

(19)

Robina Mohammad

27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad

398

(19)

Jasbir Kaur Puar

Part V Environment

417

(100)

28 Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the "Woman Question" in Sustainable Development to Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic

419

(15)

Dianne Rocheleau

29 Gender Relations beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods

434

(11)

Anoja Wickramasinghe

30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology

445

(13)

Jody Emel and Julie Urbanik

31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures

458

(28)

Jennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang

32 Geographic Information and Women's Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example

486

(10)

Sara McLafferty

33 Performing a "Global Sense of Place": Women's Actions for Environmental Justice

496

(21)

Giovanna Di Chiro

Part VI State/Nation

517

(90)

34 Feminist Political Geographies

519

(15)

Eleonore Kofman

35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

534

(16)

Mona Domosh

36 Virility and Violation in the US "War on Terrorism"

550

(15)

Matthew G. Hannah

37 Feminist Geopolitics and September 11

565

(13)

Jennifer Hyndman

38 Love for Sale: Marketing Gay Male P/Leisure Space in Contemporary Cape Town, South Africa

578

(12)

Glen S. Elder

39 Women's Struggles for Sustainable Peace in Post-conflict Peru: A Feminist Analysis of Violence and Change

590

(17)

Maureen Hays-Mitchell

Index

607

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A Companion To Feminist Geography

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