A Companion to Feminist Geography

Nelson, Lise / Seager, Joni (Editor)

Blackwell Companions to Geography

1. Edition March 2025
640 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-394-34952-4

John Wiley & Sons

Wiley Online Library

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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.

* Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers.

* Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation.

* Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in the field.

* Each chapter can be read for its own distinctive contribution.

"A kaleidoscopic presentation of the riches of feminist geography; revealing at every turn the breadth of its theoretical perspectives, the variety of its objects of inquiry, and the reach of its methodologies. At once poetic, polemical, and rigorous, A Companion to Feminist Geography cross-cuts contemporary feminist research at all scales with historiographies of feminist thought in the field. With chapters by a truly international group of authors, this anthology inscribes feminist geography at the heart of the discipline as it makes the vitality of geographic thought vivid, not only for other fields, but for a range of political movements as well."
--Cindi Katz, City University of New York

"A kaleidoscopic presentation of the riches of feminist geography, revealing at every turn the breadth of its theoretical perspectives, the variety of its objects of inquiry, and the reach of its methodologies. At once poetic, polemical and rigorous, the Companion to Feminist Geography cross-cuts contemporary feminist research at all scales with historiographies of feminist thought in the field. With chapters by a truly international group of authors, this anthology inscribes feminist geography at the heart of the discipline as it makes the vitality of geographic thought vivid not only for other fields but for a range of political movements as well."
--Cindi Katz, Graduate Centre, City University of New York

"Though each of the essays can be read for its own distinctive contribution, the anthology as a whole is designed to provide a mosaic of feminist geography for both scholars and students."
--Reference and Research Book News, Vol 20/1, Feb 2005

"An extensive resource written by influential feminist thinkers and practitioners...All Blackwell Companions are relevant to academics, researchers and students in their disciplines and beyond, but this volume on feminist geography will have more general appeal"
--Reference Reviews

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).

L. Nelson, University of Oregon, USA; J. Seager, York University in Toronto, Canada