Thresholds in Feminist Geography: Difference, Methodology, Representation

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John Paul Jones, Heidi J. Nast, Susan M. Roberts
Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 - Education - 428 pages
Bundel artikelen, geschreven naar aanleiding van de conferentie: New Horizons in Feminist Geography (1995). De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Community, place, and identity / door Audrey Kobayashi; Identity, space, and politics: a critique of the poverty debates / door Melissa R. Gilbert; Women's life courses, spatial mobility, and state policies / door Glenda Laws; Making space: separatism and difference / door Gill Valentine; The meaning of home workplaces for women / door Sherry Ahrentzen; Hearing from quiet students: the politics of silence and voice in geography classrooms / door Karen Nairn; Counting women's work: intersection of time and space / door Vidyamali Samarasinghe; Feminist critical realism: a mothod for gender and work studies in geography / door Karen Falconer Al-Hindi; The home as "field": households and homework in rural Appalachia / door Ann M. Oberhauser; Dialogue with difference: a tale of two studies / door Isabel Dyck; Exploring methodological borderlands through oral narratives / door Richa Nagar; With "Stout boots and a stout heart": historical methodology and feminist geography / door Mona Domosh; Charting the other maps: 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? / door Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher; Redefining the barricades: Latina lesbian politics and the creation of an oppositional public sphere / door Patricia Meono-Picado; Gender, "race", and diaspora : racialized identities of emigrant Irish women / door Bronwen Walter; Sweet surrender, but what's the gender? Nature and the body in the writings of nineteenth-century Mormon women / door Jeanne Kay; The cultural construction of rurality: gender identities and the rural idyll / door Francine Watkins.
 

Contents

Community Place and Identity
11
Identity Space and Politics A Critique of the Poverty Debates
29
Womens Life Courses Spatial Mobility and State Policies
47
Making Space Separatism and Difference
65
The Meaning of Home Workplaces for Women
77
Hearing from Quiet Students The Politics of Silence and Voice in Geography Classrooms
93
Methodology
117
As the World Turns New Horizons in Feminist Geographic Methodologies
119
With Stout Boots and a Stout Heart Historical Methodology and Feminist Geography
225
Representation
239
Marginal Notes on Representations
241
Charting the Other Maps Cartography and Visual Methods in Feminist Research
255
For Whom Shall We Write? What Voice Shall We Use? Which Story Shall We Tell?
285
Redefining the Barricades Latina Lesbian Politics and the Creation of an Oppositional Public Sphere
319
Gender Race and Diaspora Racialized Identities of Emigrant Irish Women
339
Sweet Surrender but Whats the Gender? Nature and the Body in the Writings of NineteenthCentury
361

Counting Womens Work The Intersection of Time and Space
129
Feminist Critical Realism A Method for Gender and Work Studies in Geography
145
The Home as Field Households and Homework in Rural Appalachia
165
Dialogue with Difference A Tale of Two Studies
183
Exploring Methodological Borderlands through Oral Narratives
203
The Cultural Construction of Rurality Gender Identities and the Rural Idyll
383
Crossing Thresholds
393
Index
407
About the Contributors
425
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