A Companion to Feminist Geography

A Companion to Feminist Geography captures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s. Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today. Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers. Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation. Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in the field. Each chapter can be read for its own distinctive contribution.Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–11): Lise Nelson and Joni SeagerChapter 2 Situating Gender (pages 15–31): Liz Bondi and Joyce DavidsonChapter 3 Anti?Racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action (pages 32–40): Audrey KobayashiChapter 4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology (pages 41–59): Pamela MossChapter 5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges (pages 60–73): Brenda S. A. YeohChapter 6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work (pages 77–92): Kim England and Victoria LawsonChapter 7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso (pages 93–108): Marlene Elias and Judith CarneyChapter 8 Working on the Global Assembly Line (pages 109–122): Altha J. CraveyChapter 9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada (pages 123–137): Geraldine PrattChapter 10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography (pages 138–149): Rachel SilveyChapter 11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry (pages 150–165): Ayda Eraydyn and Asuman Turkun?ErendilChapter 12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization (pages 166–178): Vidyamali SamarasingheChapter 13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship (pages 179–193): Susan Hanson and Megan BlakeChapter 14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating “Thus Far and no Further” Supportive Structures. A Case from India (pages 194–207): Saraswati RajuChapter 15 Feminist Geographies of the “City”: Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings (pages 211–227): Valerie Preston and Ebru UstundagChapter 16 Spaces of Change: Gender, Information Technology, and New Geographies of Mobility and Fixity in the Early Twentiethcentury Information Economy (pages 228–241): Kate BoyerChapter 17 Gender and the City: the Different Formations of Belonging (pages 242–256): Tovi FensterChapter 18 Urban Space in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed (pages 257–270): Hille KoskelaChapter 19 Daycare Services Provision for Working Women in Japan (pages 271–290): Kamiya HirooChapter 20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with “Empowerment” in India and South Africa (pages 291–304): Richa Nagar and Amanda Lock SwarrChapter 21 Moving Beyond “Gender and Gis” to a Feminist Perspective on Information Technologies: The Impact of Welfare Reform on Women's it Needs (pages 305–321): Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele MasucciChapter 22 Women Outdoors: Destabilizing the Public/Private Dichotomy (pages 322–333): Phil HubbardChapter 23 Situating Bodies (pages 337–349): Robyn LonghurstChapter 24 Bodies, State Discipline, and the Performance of Gender in a South African Women's Prison (pages 350–362): Teresa DirsuweitChapter 25 Hiv/Aids Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman's Body (pages 363–378): Kawango AgotChapter 26 British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation (pages 379–397): Robina MohammadChapter 27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad (pages 398–416): Jasbir Kaur PuarChapter 28 Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the “Woman Question” in Sustainable Development to Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana?chacuey, Dominican Republic (pages 419–433): Dianne RocheleauChapter 29 Gender Relations Beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods (pages 434–444): Anoja WickramasingheChapter 30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology (pages 445–457): Jody Emel and Julie UrbanikChapter 31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures (pages 458–485): Jennifer Wolch and Jin ZhangChapter 32 Geographic Information and Women's Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example (pages 486–495): Sara McLaffertyChapter 33 Performing a “Global Sense of Place”: Women's Actions for Environmental Justice (pages 496–515): Giovanna Di ChiroChapter 34 Feminist Political Geographies (pages 519–533): Eleonore KofmanChapter 35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (pages 534–549): Mona DomoshChapter 36 Virility and Violation in the US “War on Terrorism” (pages 550–564): Matthew G. HannahChapter 37 Feminist Geopolitics and September 11 (pages 565–577): Jennifer HyndmanChapter 38 Love for Sale: Marketing Gay Male P/Leisure Space in Contemporary Cape Town, South Africa (pages 578–589): Glen S. ElderChapter 39 Women's Struggles for Sustainable Peace in Postconflict Peru: A Feminist Analysis of Violence and Change (pages 590–606): Maureen Hays?Mitchell