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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. It shows how feminist geography has altered the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s, reframing fundamental approaches across a range of disciplines, including architecture, environmental studies, and geography. Further, it situates feminist geography within the context of geographical thought and within interdisciplinary feminist debates. The Companion , featuring contributors from around the world, explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today, tracing the emergence of key debates in the field. The volume reflects the various sites and locations from which feminist geographical analysis is being produced; and it includes a systematic assessment of feminist contributions to major sub-fields in geography, covering both established subjects, such as labor, urban, and environmental geography, and emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xviii 1 Introduction 1 Lise Nelson and Joni Seager Part I Contexts 13 2 Situating Gender 15 Liz Bondi and Joyce Davidson 3 Anti-racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action 32 Audrey Kobayashi 4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology 41 Pamela Moss 5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges 60 Brenda S. A. Yeoh Part II Work 75 6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work 77 Kim England and Victoria Lawson 7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso 93 Marlène Elias and Judith Carney 8 Working on the Global Assembly Line 109 Altha J. Cravey 9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada 123 Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre 10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography 138 Rachel Silvey 11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry 150 Ayda Eraydýn and Asuman Turkun-Erendil 12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization 166 Vidyamali Samarasinghe 13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship 179 Susan Hanson and Megan Blake 14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating "Thus Far and No Further" Supportive Structures. A Case from India 194 Saraswati Raju Part III City 209 15 Feminist Geographies of the "City": Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings 211 Valerie Preston and Ebru Ustundag 1...
