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This innovative collection explores the concept of space as it relates to feminist studies. Utilizing a range of theoretical perspectives, a distinguished group of international scholars crosses over the thresholds of difference, methodology, and representation that challenge feminist geography.

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Author:   John Paul Jones III (Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky, USA) ,  Heidi J. Nast (Assistant Professor of International Studies, DePaul University, USA) ,  Susan M. Roberts (Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky, USA)
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.626kg
ISBN:  

9780847684373

ISBN 10:   0847684377
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   10 April 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction, John Paul Jones III, Heidi J. Nast, and Susan M. Roberts; Difference - the paradox of difference and diversity (or, Why the threshold keeps moving), Audrey Kobayashi; community, identity and place, Laura Pulido; identity, space and politics - a critique of the poverty debates, Melissa R. Gilbert; women's life courses, spatial mobility, and state policies, Glenda Laws; making space - separatism and difference, Gill Valentine; the meaning of home workplaces for women, Sherry Ahrentzen; hearing from quiet students - the politics of science and of voice in geography classrooms, Karen Nairn; methodological frontiers; as the world turns - new horizons in feminist geographic methodologies, Susan Hanson; counting women's work - the intersection of place and time, Vidyamali Samarasinghe; feminist critical realism - a method for gender and work studies in geography, Karen Falconer Al-Hindi; the home as field - researching households and homework in rural Appalachia, Ann Oberhauser; dialogue with difference - a tale of two studies, Isabel Dyck; exploring methodological borderlands through oral narratives, Richa Nagar; with stout boots and a stout heart - feminist methodology and historical gepgraphy, Mona Domosh; representation; marginal notes on representation, Janice Monk; charting the other map(s) - cartography and visual methods in feminist research, Nikolas H. Huffman; for whom shall we write? what voice shall we use? which story shall we tell?, Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher; redefining the barricades - latina lesbian politics and the creation of an oppositional public sphere, Patricia Meono-Picado; gender, race and diaspora - racialized identities of emigrant Irish women, Bronwen Walter; sweet surrender, but what's the gender? - nature and the body in the writings of 19th-century Mormon women, Jeanne Kay; the cultural construction of rurality - gender identities and the rural idyll, Francine Watkins.

Reviews

Feminist geography at its best . . . engaging, insightful, theoretically sound while grounded in the realities of women's lives.--Joni Seager, University of Vermont This collection of essays confirms the importance of feminist approaches to geography and the importance of geography to feminist critiques of social life. It will be a stimulating and useful text for readers both new to and familiar with feminist geography.--Gillian Rose, University of Edinburgh No matter where you place yourself in the discipline feminist, nonfeminist, or antifeminist, you have to look at this colection. It is a landmark volume in the history of geographic thought and incredibly useful in understanding the positionings of women in the economy. . . . I am impressed with the freshness of the collection. Each chapter in its own way shows how theory is grounded in women's everyday lives.--Pamela Moss, University of Victoria Economic Geography An exciting, often provocative, and sometimes paradoxical collection that showcases directions in feminist geographic research. . . . A superb resource for scholars and students interested in contemporary directions in feminist geography.--Vera Chouinard, McMaster University Annals of the Association of American Geographers The essays in Thresholds in Feminist Geography are uniformly polished, and for an edited collection it is unusually even in terms of presentational quality, showcasing ccurrent research in feminist geography to good effect.--Liz Bondi, University of Edinburgh Signs: Journal of Women In Culture & Society

This collection of essays confirms the importance of feminist approaches to geography and the importance of geography to feminist critiques of social life. It will be a stimulating and useful text for readers both new to and familiar with feminist geography.--Rose, Gillian

Author Information

John Paul Jones III is professor of geography at the University of Kentucky. Heidi J. Nast is assistant professor of international studies at DePaul University. Susan M. Roberts is assistant professor of geography at the University of Kentucky.

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