Mapping Women, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography / Edition 1

by Lynn Staeheli, Eleonore Kofman, Linda Peake

Overview

Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of settings and topics including nationalism, migration, development, international relations, elections, social movements, governance and the environment in the Global North and South.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415934480
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/04/2004
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Lynn A. Staeheli, Eleonore Kofman, Linda J. Peake

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Mapping Gender, Making Politics: Toward Feminist Political Geographies, LYNN A. STAEHELI, ELEONORE KOFMAN; Chapter 2 Contextualizing Feminist Political Theory, PATRICIA M. MARTIN; Chapter 3 Mapping Feminisms and Difference, RICHA NAGAR; Chapter 4 From Dualisms to Multiplicities: Gendered Political Practices, RUTH FINCHER; Chapter 5 Placing Gendered Political Acts, MEGHAN COPE; Chapter 6 Doing Feminist Political Geographies, JOANNESHARP; Chapter 7 Development, Postcolonialism, and Feminist Political Geography, NINA LAURIE, PAMELA CALLA; Chapter 8 Critically Feminist Geopolitics, MARY GILMARTIN, ELEONORE KOFMAN; Chapter 9 Gendered Globalization, SUSAN M. ROBERTS; Chapter 10 Territory, Territoriality, and Boundaries, DORIS WASTL-WALTER, LYNN A. STAEHELI; Chapter 11 Embodied Nationalisms, TAMAR MAYER; Chapter 12 The (Geo)Politics of Mobility, JENNIFER HYNDMAN; Chapter 13 Crossing Borders: Gender and Migration, PARVATI RAGHURAM; Chapter 14 Social Movements, Protest, and Resistance, JOAN FAIRHURST, MAANO RAMUTSINDELA, URMILLA BOB; Chapter 15 A Gendered Politics of the Environment, JOSEPA BRÚ BISTUER, MERCÈ AGÜERA CABO; Chapter 16 Making Feminist Sense of the State and Citizenship, VERA CHOUINARD; Chapter 17 Framing Feminist Claims for Urban Citizenship, GERDA R. WEKERLE; Chapter 18 Feminizing Electoral Geography, ANNA J. SECOR; References; Chapter 19 Contributors; Index;