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Gender, Identity and Place

Understanding Feminist Geographies

McDowell, Linda

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1. Auflage November 1998
296 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1507-3
John Wiley & Sons

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Feminist approaches within the social sciences have expanded
enormously since the 1960s. In addition, in recent years,
geographic perspectives have become increasingly significant as
feminist recognition of the differences between women, their
diverse experiences in different parts of the world and the
importance of location in the social construction of knowledge has
placed varied geographies at the centre of contemporary feminist
and postmodern debates.

Gender, Identity and Place is an accessible and clearly
written introduction to the wide field of issues that have been
addressed by geographers and feminist scholars. It combines the
careful definition and discussion of key concepts and theoretical
approaches with a wealth of empirical detail from a wide-ranging
selection of case studies and other empirical research. It is
organized on the basis of spatial scale, examining the
relationships between gender and place from the body to the nation,
although the links between different spatial scales are also
emphasized. The conceptual division and spatial separation between
the public and private spheres and their association with men and
women respectively has been a crucial part of the social
construction of gendered differences and its establishment,
maintenance and reshaping from industrial urbanization to the end
of the millennium is a central linking theme in the eight
substantive chapters. The book concludes with an assessment of the
possibilities of doing feminist research.

It will be essential reading for students in geography, feminist
theory, women's studies, anthropology and sociology.

List of Plates.

List of Figures and Tables.

1. Introduction: Place and Gender.

2. In and Out of Place: Bodies and Embodiment.

3. Home, Place and Identity.

4. Community, City and Locality.

5. Work/Workplaces.

6. In Public: the Street and Spaces of Pleasure.

7. Gendering the Nation-State.

8. Displacements.

9. Postscript: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Feminist
Research.

References.

Index.
"McDowell provides a sensitive and sophisticated reading of the
feminist literature through a geographer's lens. Accessible,
comprehensive, and contemporary, Gender, Identity and Place
never loses sight of the feminist political project. A landmark
book in feminist geography!" Susan Hanson, Head of Graduate
School of Geography, Clark University

"a text that usefully and thematically summarises an extant body
of knowledge. Any tertiary student, new researcher or reluctant
colleague wanting to understand the contribution of feminist
geography to the discipline will find easy access to that story in
the highly readable narrative that Linda McDowell has composed.
Gender, Identity and Place has a strength that is often
lacking in multiply authored or thematically focused texts. The
cohesion of the argument is not simply evident in the introduction
and conclusion but is threaded through each of the substantive
sections theoretically, empirically and stylistically." Robyn
Peace, University of Waikato, Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender
Studies
Linda McDowell is a Fellow of Newnham College and Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

L. McDowell, St John's College, University of Oxford