Feminism and Geography

An examination of the masculinism of contemporary geographical discourse, studying not the geography of women, but the gender of the discourse of geography. The book draws on the work of feminist theorists and identifies the kinds of masculinity which structure geography as a discipline.

Autorentext

Gillian Rose is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Edinburgh.

Klappentext

Geography 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, mena s interests have structured what counts as legitimate geographical knowledge.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements. 1. Feminism and Geography: An Introduction. 2. Women and Everyday Spaces. 3. No Place for Women? 4. The Geographical Imagination: Knowledge and Critique. 5. Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power. 6. Spatial Divisions and Other Spaces: Production, Reproduction and Beyond. 7. A Politics of Paradoxical Space. Notes to Chapters.