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

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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