A Companion to Feminist Geography
Language: English
Pages: 640
ISBN: 1405101865
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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.
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Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work Kim England and Victoria Lawson The social organization of work is a longstanding theme for feminist social scientists. Employment and home–work linkages are enduring themes in feminist geography scholarship and were pivotal in the early development of the field. Feminist geographers, including both of us, are greatly influenced by analyses of work by feminist scholars outside geography. However, in this chapter we have chosen to
1999; England and Gad, 2003). Finally, a parallel set of inquiries suggest a spatial unevenness to the occupational prestige associated with different workplace locations within cities (Hanson and Pratt, 1995; Blumen, 1998; Mez and Bühler, 1998; England and Gad, 2003). The spatiality of work in cities of the “Global South” is quite different from that in the “Global North.” These differences are often expressed in the greater dispersal and/or invisibility of informal work such as street trading
between the resource decision-maker and its users. This process has frequently erupted into gender conflict between husbands and wives in areas of sub-Saharan Africa where development schemes target women as beneficiaries (Carney, 1988; Schroeder, 1999; Dolan, 2001; Hart, 2002). Whether the pattern under way in central Burkina Faso will prevail in WID shea projects cannot at this point be determined. Shea Commercialization: Female Labor and Processing Demands The rising value of shea butter in
or partly decommodified in neighborhoods and communities dominated by the old factory regime. Households, individuals, neighborhoods, indeed whole industrial regions enjoyed long stable periods of growth and well-being during Mexico’s miracle years. If industrial policies had been overturned and dismantled in these very same places, the history of Mexico might have been very different. Specifically, we might have seen much more active resistance (e.g. strikes, protests, community actions) to