Feminism and Geography : The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

Name: Feminism and Geography : The Limits of Geographical Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780816624188

ISBN-10: 0816624186

ISBN-13: 9780816624188

Edition: 1st

Authors: Gillian Rose

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Geography is a subject that throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations that 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, Rose discusses different aspects of the discipline's masculinism in a series of essays that bring influential approaches in recent geography together with feminist…

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List price: $17.95
Edition: 1st
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Feminism and Geography: An Introduction



Women and Everyday Spaces



No Place for Women?



The Geographical Imagination: Knowledge and Critique



Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power



Spatial Divisions and Other Spaces: Production, Reproduction and Beyond



A Politics of Paradoxical Space


Notes to Chapters