Writing Women and Space

Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-89862-498-4
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: Mappings: Society/Theory/Space

Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which white women have written and mapped different geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today, illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture, cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different understandings and representations of people and place.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blunt, Alison

Rose, Gillian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Women's Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies PART I: DRAWING THE MAP Knowledge, Gender, and Empire 3. Mapping Authorship and Authority: Reading Mary Kingsley's Landscape Descriptions 4. Encounters with West African Women: Textual Representations of Difference by White Women Abroad Colonizing Gender in Colonial Australia: The Eliza Fraser Story Gender, War, and Imagined Geographies: United States Women and the "Far-Flung" Fronts of World War II PART II: RETHINKING MAPPING 7. Occupying the Suburban Frontier: Accommodating Difference on Melbourne's Urban Fringe 8 Earth Honoring: Western Desires and Indigenous Knowledges 9. White Women Researching/Representing "Others": From Antiapartheid to Postcolonialism? 10. Remapping the Body/Land: New Cartographies of Identity, Gender, and Landscape in Ireland Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Blunt, M.A., is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Southampton in England.