Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings 1st Edition by Linda Mcdowell, ISBN-13: 978-0340677926

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Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings 1st Edition by Linda Mcdowell, ISBN-13: 978-0340677926

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• Publisher: ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (May 30, 1997)
• Language: ‎ English
• ‎484 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0340677929
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0340677926

‘Space Gender Knowledge’ is an innovative and comprehensive introduction to the geographies of gender and the gendered nature of spatial relations. It examines the major issues raised by women’s movements and academic feminism, and outlines the main shifts in feminist geographical work, from the geography of women to the impact of post-structuralism. In making their selection, the editors have drawn on a wide range of interdisciplinary material, ranging across spatial scales from the body to the globe.

The book presents influential arguments for the importance of the intersection between space and gender. Looking both at geography and beyond the discipline, it explores the gendered construction of space and the spatial construction of gender. Divided into a number of conceptual sections, each prefaced by an editorial introduction, this reader includes extracts from both landmark texts and less well-known works, making it an indispensable introduction to this dynamic field of study.

Table of Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

In the beginning there were two positions …

Getting complicated: race, class and gender

Decentering ‘woman’

A ‘cultural turn’? Performing gender/writing gender

The possibility of feminist politics

The structure of the reader

References and further reading

Section One: Thinking Through Gender

Editors’ introduction

References and further reading

1 Women and Geography Study Group ‘Why Study Feminist Geography?’

A ‘geography of women’ or ‘feminist geography’?

Why bother?

References

2 ‘“Gender” for a Marxist Dictionary: the Sexual Politics of a Word’

Keyword

History

Current problematic

Notes

References

3 ‘Gender as a Structure of Social Practice’

Gender as a structure of social practice

Relations among masculinities: hegemony, subordination, complicity, marginalization

Hegemony

Subordination

Complicity

Marginalization

Notes

References

4 ‘Situated Knowledges: the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective’

The persistence of vision

Objects as actors: the apparatus of bodily production

Notes

5 ‘Feminism, Postmodernism and Geography: Space for Women?’

Postmodernism: geographical encounters

Postmodernism and geography: space for women?

Gender and space

Feminism and difference

References

6 ‘Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience’

‘A place on the map is also a place in history’

‘It ain’t home no more’: rethinking unity

Notes

Section Two: Practising Feminist Geographies

Editors’ introduction

References and further reading

7 ‘Doing Gender: Feminism, Feminists and Research Methods in Human Geography’

Sexist biases in research methods: critiques of conventional methods

Feminist methods

Some difficult questions

Notes

Selected references

8 ‘Can there be a Feminist Ethnography?’

Notes

References

9 ‘“Stuffed if I Know!”: Reflections on Post-modern Feminist Social Research’

Introduction

Mining and representation

Exploratory probes and precious glimmers

Collinsville

Moura

Moranbah

Processing

Research as politics/politics of research

As luck would have it …

Identity, difference and post-modern feminist action research

Conclusion

Notes

References

10 ‘On not Being Anywhere Near the “Project”: Revolutionary Ways of Putting Ourselves in the Picture’

Living exclusion: two geographers’ tales

The disabled woman

The dyke

What’s wrong with this picture? Missing sisters in geography

Invisible sisters: disabled women

Invisible sisters: lesbians

Confronting ableism and heterosexism in geography

Are geographers up to it? Facing up to ableism

Are geographers up to it? Facing up to heterosexism

Notes

References

Section Three: The Nature Of Gender

Editors’ introduction

References and further reading

11 ‘The Earth is Not Your Mother’

This earth is not your mother

Notes

12 ‘Women in Nature’

Nature as the feminine principle

Notes

13 ‘Man Bad, Woman Good? Essentialisms and Ecofeminisms’

Essentialisms and ecofeminisms

Dualistic ecofeminism

‘Social’ ecofeminism

Essentially male?

Gendered experience, gendered interests

Objective and subjective interests

Women’s diverse interests

What are women’s needs, and women’s interests?

Men’s interests

What then of men’s interests?

Notes

14 ‘Looking at Landscape: the Uneasy Pleasures of Power’

Landscape as visual ideology

Notes

Section Four: Body Maps

Editors’ introduction

15 ‘Growing Up White: Feminism, Racism and the Social Geography of Childhood’

Introduction: personal and contextual notes

White Privilege

White women’s lives as sites for the reproduction of racism – and for challenges to it

Notes

References

16 ‘The Scaling of Bodies and the Politics of Identity’

The scaling of bodies in modern discourse

Conscious acceptance, unconscious aversion

References

17 ‘Anglo-American Feminism, “Women’s Liberation” and the Politics of the Body’

Notes

18 ‘Inscriptions and Body Maps: Representations and the Corporeal’

Writing bodies

Social inscription

Sexed bodies

Notes

References

19 ‘Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory and Psychoanalytic Discourse’

Notes

Section Five: Gendering Everyday Spaces

Editors’ introduction

References and further reading

20 ‘Housing and American Life’

Notes

21 ‘Into the Labyrinth’

Notes

References

22 ‘(Hetero)Sexing Space: Lesbian Perceptions and Experiences of Everyday Spaces’

The myth of a private-public dichotomy

Heterosexualised spaces

House and home

The workplace

Social spaces

Public open spaces

Conclusion – (hetero)sexing space

Notes

References

23 ‘Femininity, Post-Fordism and the “New Traditionalism”’

Introduction

The redefinition of gender relations

Representation, space, and femininity

Situating the female consumer

Space, place, and the new traditionalism

Conclusion

Notes

References

Section Six: Gendering Work

Editors’ introduction

References and further reading

24 ‘Women, Employment and the Family’

Market and production factors versus household factors in women’s employment

Levels of employment

Age and marital patterns in women‘s employment

Household effects on employment

Conclusion

Note

References

25 ‘Gender Segregation and the Sex-typing of Jobs’

Sex-typing and gender segregation

Explanations of and ‘orientations’ to segregation and sex-typing

References

26 ‘Industrial Restructuring as Class Restructuring: Production Decentralization and Local Uniqueness’

Introduction

The old coalmining areas

The existing structure

The impact, or ‘the combination of layers’

Cornwall

The existing structure

The impact, or ‘the combination of layers’

Conclusions

National processes and local change

Notes

References

27 ‘Missing Subjects: Gender, Sexuality and Power in Merchant Banking’

Sexing jobs

Transforming gender relations in the new service economy?

Gendered organizations: sexing and resexing jobs

Epidermalizing the world

Gender performance and regulatory fictions

Doing gender on the job: male performance

Dual masculinities in merchant banking

Multiple femininities

The honorary male – or not?

Conclusions

References

28 ‘Fast Food, Fettered Work: Chinese Women in the Ethnic Catering Industry’

Fast food

Chinese fast food

Chinese women in Britain

A second generation of fast food workers

New horizons

Conclusion

Notes

References

Section Seven: Gender, Nation And International Relations

Editors’ introduction

References and further reading

29 ‘Gender and Nation’

Gender relations, citizenship and membership in the national collectivity

Gender relations and cultural constructions of collectivities

Gender relations and the biological reproduction of ‘the nation’

References

30 ‘No Longer in a Future Heaven: Gender, Race and Nationalism’

The national family of man: a domestic genealogy

The gendering of nation time

Fanon and gender agency

Feminism and nationalism

Notes

31 ‘Middle East Politics through Feminist Lenses: Toward Theorizing International Relations from Women’s Struggles’

Situated knowledge: authorship, identity, and responsibility

The politics of re-presentation: challenging stereotypes, contextualizing women’s struggles

Theorizing from women’s struggles: politics, discourse, and resistance

Conclusions

Notes

32 ‘To Live in the Borderlands Means You…’

33 ‘Gender Makes the World Go Round’

Where are the women? Clues from the Iran/Contra affair

Masculinity and international politics

Beyond the global victim

Notes

Index

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