Space, Gender, Knowledge Feminist Readings

by McDowell, Linda; Sharp, Joanne P.

• ISBN13: 9780340700198
• ISBN10: 034070019X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-15
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

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 thegeography 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, eachprefaced 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

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Section One: Thinking through Gender
Editors' Introduction	13	(6)
Women and Geography Study Group, 'Why Study Feminist Geography?' (1984)	19	(4)
```Gender'' for a Marxist Dictionary: the Sexual Politics of a Word' (1991)	23	(21)
Donna Haraway
`Gender as a Structure of Social Practice' (1995)	44	(9)
R. W. Connell
`Situated Knowledges: the Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective' (1988)	53	(20)
Donna Haraway
`Feminism, Postmodernism and Geography: Space for Women?' (1990)	73	(9)
Liz Bondi
`Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience' (1992)	82	(23)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Section Two: Practising Feminist Geographies
Editors' Introduction	99	(6)
`Doing Gender: Feminism, Feminists and Research Methods in Human Geography' (1992)	105	(10)
Linda McDowell
`Can there be a Feminist Ethnography?' (1998)	115	(9)
Judith Stacey
```Stuffed if I Know'': Reflections on Post-modern Feminist Social Research'(1994)	124	(23)
J. K. Gibson-Graham
`On not Being Anywhere Near the ``Project'': Revolutionary Ways of Putting Ourselves in the Picture' (1995)	147	(24)
Vera Chouinard
Ali Grant
Section Three: The Nature of Gender
Editors' Introduction	165	(6)
`The Earth is not your Mother' (1994)	171	(3)
Joni Seager
`Women in Nature' (1989)	174	(3)
Vandana Shiva
`Man Bad, Woman Good? Essentialisms and Ecofeminisms' (1996)	177	(16)
Caroline New
`Looking at Landscape: the Unesasy Pleasures of Power' (1993)	193	(16)
Gillian Rose
Section Four: Body Maps
Editors' Introduction	201	(8)
`Growing up White: Feminism, Racism and the Social Geography of Childhood' (1993)	209	(9)
Ruth Frankenberg
`The Scaling of Bodies and the Politics of Identity' (1990)	218	(14)
Iris Marion Young
`Anglo-American Feminism, ``Women's Liberation'' and the Politics of the Body' (1993)	232	(4)
Susan Bordo
`Inscriptions and Body Maps: Representations and the Corporeal' (1990)	236	(11)
Elizabeth Grosz
`Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory and Psychoanalytic Discourse' (1990)	247	(22)
Judith Butler
Section Five: Gendering Everyday Space
Editors' Introduction	263	(6)
`Housing and American Life' (1984)	269	(8)
Delores Hayden
`Into the Labyrinth' (1991)	277	(7)
Elizabeth Wilson
`(Hetero) Sexing Space: Lesbian Perceptions and Experiences of Everyday Spaces' (1993)	284	(16)
Gill Valentine
`Femininity, Post-Fordism and the ``New Traditionalism''' (1993)	300	(27)
D. A. Leslie
Section Six: Gendering Work
Editors' Introduction	319	(8)
`Women, Employment and the Family' (1988)	327	(16)
Sharon Stichter
`Gender Segregation and the Sex-typing of Jobs' (1989)	343	(10)
Harriet Bradley
`Industrial Restructuring as Class Restructuring: Production Decentralization and Local Uniqueness' (1983)	353	(15)
Doreen Massey
`Missing Subjects: Gender, Sexuality and Power in Merchant Banking' (1994)	368	(16)
Linda McDowell
Gill Court
`Fast Food, Fettered Work: Chinese Women in the Ethnic Catering Industry' (1988)	384	(11)
S. Baxter
G. Raw
Section Seven: Gender, Nation and International Relations
Editors' Introduction	395	(1)
`Gender and Nation' (1993)	395	(14)
Nira Yuval-Davis
`No Longer in a Future Heaven: Gender Race and Nationalism' (1994)	409	(16)
Anne McClintock
`Middle East Politics through Feminist Lenses: Toward Theorizing International Relations from Women's Struggles' (1993)	425	(21)
Simona Sharoni
`To Live in the Borderlands Means You...' (1987)	446	(1)
Gloria Anzaldua
`Gender Makes the World Go Round' (1989)	447	(12)
Cynthia Enloe
Index	459