Putting Women in Place Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World

Name: Putting Women in Place Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World
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ISBN: 9781572306684

ISBN-10: 1572306688

ISBN-13: 9781572306684

Edition: 2001

Authors: Joni Seager, Mona Domosh

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Why do women and men tend to work in different jobs, in different ways and in different spaces? Why is nature often represented in feminine form? This book uses the lens of gender to provide a new view on the geography of everyday life.

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Publication date: 5/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments


Preface



Home


The Separation of Spheres


At Home with the Victorians


Reading the Parlor


Cleaning the Parlor


Tastemakers and Home Engineering


Social Engineering


The Suburban Home


The Postmodern Home


Home-Work Relations



Women at Work


What Is Work?


What Counts?


Footloose Factories and Nimble Fingers: The New Industrial Order


Homework


The Return of the Sweatshop


Between the Sticky Floor and the Glass Ceiling


Gender in the Workplace


Mapping the Terrain of Poverty



The City


Masculine City, Feminine Country?


The Early Modern City


The Industrial City


Working Women


Shopping Women


Regulating Women


The Modern City


The Postmodern City


Crime and Safety


Homelessness


Gentrification


Diverse Suburbs


The Culture of Shopping


Downtown



On The Move


The Body in Space


Getting Around: First Principles


Keeping Women in Their Place


Roaming and "Homing"


Breaking the Bonds of Space and Sex


Auto-masculinity


Global Migration


Refugees


The Sex Trade



Nations and Empires


Victorian Lady Travelers


Women and Colonial Space


Domestic Space on the Frontier


Domestic Space in the Colonies


Bringing the Imperial Home


Feminism and Imperialism


Gender and Nationalism


Women in Nationalist Movements


Nationalisms and Sexualities



The Environment


Mothers and Other Forces of Nature


Control


Encounters in the Environment


Studying Nature


Environmental Perception


Environmental Activism and Ecofeminism


References


Index


About the Authors