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"Exploring the concept of space as it relates to feminist studies, this book provides different perspectives on the ""thresholds"" of difference, methodology, and representation that challenge feminist geography. The essays here extend the understanding of spatial connections, including the role of social space in the construction of gendered and sexed identities, the need to sensitize feminist methodology to ""place"" contexts, and the importance of examining representations both as sociopolitical and as spatial artefacts. Each section of the book includes an introduction offering a conceptual guide to the essays it contains, and the introduction itself provides an overview of feminist geography."

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Author:   John Paul Jones ,  Heidi J. Nast ,  Susan M. Roberts ,  Sherry Ahrentzen
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780847684366

ISBN 10:   0847684369
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   10 June 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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 I recommend it as an introduction to feminist geography for feminist scholars outside of the discipline, as well as for those within geography-including graduate students-who are new to feminist approaches. Professional Geographer 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 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 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 AAG 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 An ispiring collection that brings together much of the most innovative scholarship on identity, politics, and place. Place and Environment

Feminist geography at its best ... engaging, insightful, theoretically sound while grounded in the realities of women's lives. -- Joni Seager, University of Vermont I recommend it as an introduction to feminist geography for feminist scholars outside of the discipline, as well as for those within geography-including graduate students-who are new to feminist approaches. Professional Geographer 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 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 and Society 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 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 An ispiring collection that brings together much of the most innovative scholarship on identity, politics, and place. Place and Environment

Feminist geography at its best ... engaging, insightful, theoretically sound while grounded in the realities of women's lives. -- Joni Seager, University of Vermont I recommend it as an introduction to feminist geography for feminist scholars outside of the discipline, as well as for those within geography-including graduate students-who are new to feminist approaches. Professional Geographer 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 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 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 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 An ispiring collection that brings together much of the most innovative scholarship on identity, politics, and place. Place and Environment

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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