Feminist Geography

Individual Feminists:

Elizabeth Bishop

Internet Links

[Note: This information was contributed by Stacy Harwood and Robin Peace.]

There is a very interesting and informative website on the intersection of Women, Gender and Feminist Theory with Urban Planning that includes liks to reading lists, discussion groups, community and professional organizations, journals, etc. here.

You can reach "Gender, Place, and Culture; a Journal of Feminist Geography" here.

The University of Waikato, New Zealand, offers an undergraduate program in feminist geography, which you can read about here.

There is a sample syllabus for a Feminist Geography course located here.

Bibliography

[Note: This information was contributed by Robin Peace.]

Bell, David and Gill Valentine, ed. Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat. Routledge, 1997.

Blunt, Alison and Gillian Rose, ed. Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies. Guilford Press, 1994.

Dolors, Maria Ramon-Garcia and Janice Monk, ed. Women of the European Union: The Politics of Work and Daily Life. 1996.

Duncan, Nancy. BodySpace: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality. Routledge, 1996.

England, Kim. Who Will Mind the Baby? Geographies of Childcare and Working Mothers. Routledge, 1997.

Gaard, Greta, ed. Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature. Temple Univ. Press, 1993.

Gregson, Nicky and Michelle Lowe, ed. Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Work in Contemporary Britain. 1994.

Hanson, Susan and Geraldine Pratt, ed. Gender, Work and Space. 1995.

Jones III, John Paul, ed. Thresholds in Feminist Geography: Difference, Methodology, Representation. Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.

Katz, Cindi and Janice Monk, ed. Full Circles: Geographies of Women Over the Life Course. Routledge, 1993.

Lombardi, Marilyn May, ed. Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender. Univ. Press of Virginia, 1993.

Marchand, M. and J. Parpart, ed. Feminism / Postmodernism / Development. Routledge, 1995.

Mayer, Tamar. Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change. Routledge, 1995.

Momsen, Janet and Vivian Kinnaird, ed. Different Places, Different Voices: Gender and Development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Routledge, 1993.

Radcliffe, Sarah A. and Sallie Westwood, ed. Viva: Womenand Popular Protest in Latin America. 1993.

Rose, Gillian. Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Roucheleau, Diane, Barbara Slayter-Thomas, and Esther Wangari, ed. Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experience. Routledge.

Sachs, Carolyn E. Gendered Fields: Rural Women, Agriculture, and Environment. Westview Press, 1996.

Sales, Rosemary. Women Divided: Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland. Routledge, 1997.

Sizoo, Edith. Women's Lifeworlds: Women's Narratives on Shaping Their Realities. Routledge, 1998.

Townsend, Janet. Women's Voices from the Rainforest. Routledge, 1997.

Valentine, Gill and David Bell, ed. Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexuality. Routledge, 1995.

Weisman, Leslie Kanes. Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment. Univ. of Illinois Press, 1992.

Women and Geography Study Group of the IBG. Geography and Gender: An Introduction to Feminist Geography. 1984.

Women and Geography Study Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the IGB. Feminist Geographies: Explorations in Diversity and Difference. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1997.