1st Edition

Feminist Spaces Gender and Geography in a Global Context

244 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Feminist Spaces introduces students and academic researchers to major themes and empirical studies in feminist geography. It examines new areas of feminist research including: embodiment, sexuality, masculinity, intersectional analysis, and environment and development. In addition to considering gender as a primary subject, this book provides a comprehensive overview of feminist geography by... Read more

List of Figures

List of Boxes

About the authors

Acknowledgments

 

1 Engaging Feminist Spaces: Introduction and Overview

Ann M. Oberhauser, Jennifer L. Fluri, Risa Whitson, and Sharlene Mollett

2 The Body, Performance, and Space

Jennifer L. Fluri

3 Spaces of Culture and Identity Production: Home, Consumption, and the Media

Risa Whitson

4 Gendering the Right to the City

Risa Whitson

5 Gendered Work and Economic Livelihoods

Ann M. Oberhauser

6 Feminist Political Geography and Geopolitics

Jennifer L. Fluri

7 Environmental Struggles are Feminist Struggles: Feminist Political Ecology as Development Critique

Sharlene Mollett

8 Feminist Spaces: Overview and Reflections

Sharlene Mollett, Jennifer L. Fluri, Risa Whitson, and Ann M. Oberhauser

 

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Ann M. Oberhauser is Professor of Sociology and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Iowa State University, USA.

Jennifer L. Fluri is Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA.

Sharlene Mollett is Assistant Professor, Department of Human Geography and Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.

Risa Whitson is Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Ohio University, USA.

"Artfully weaving theory with rich case studies, and academic concerns with activism, Feminist Spaces offers students a field guide to critical thinking in geography and related social sciences. By paying close attention to the ways in which gendered identities are complexly intertwined with other forms of identity and shaped through a range of power geometries, this book rewrites the agenda for feminist geographies of the 21st century." - Mona Domosh, Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College, US.