Companion to Feminist Geography

Lise Nelson is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, where she teaches courses on globalization, politics, and gender in Latin America and the United States. She is currently completing a book, Women Defending the Plaza: Gender, Citizenship and the Politics of Place..Joni Seager is Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the co-founder of a feminist environmental NGO, the "Committee on Women, Population, and Environment." Her previous publications include The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World (2003) and Putting Women in Place (co-author, 2001).

"A kaleidoscopic presentation of the riches of feminist geography, revealing at every turn the breadth of its theoretical perspectives, the variety of its objects of inquiry, and the reach of its methodologies. At once poetic, polemical and rigorous, the Companion to Feminist Geography cross-cuts contemporary feminist research at all scales with historiographies of feminist thought in the field. With chapters by a truly international group of authors, this anthology inscribes feminist geography at the heart of the discipline as it makes the vitality of geographic thought vivid not only for other fields but for a range of political movements as well."—Cindi Katz, Graduate Centre, City University of New York"Though each of the essays can be read for its own distinctive contribution, the anthology as a whole is designed to provide a mosaic of feminist geography for both scholars and students." —Reference and Research Book News, Vol 20/1, Feb 2005"An extensive resource written by influential feminist thinkers and practitioners...All Blackwell Companions are relevant to academics, researchers and students in their disciplines and beyond, but this volume on feminist geography will have more general appeal"—Reference Reviews

• List of Contributors ixAcknowledgments xviii1 Introduction 1Lise Nelson and Joni SeagerPart I Contexts 132 Situating Gender 15Liz Bondi and Joyce Davidson3 Anti-racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action 32Audrey Kobayashi4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology 41Pamela Moss5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges 60Brenda S. A. YeohPart II Work 756 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work 77Kim England and Victoria Lawson7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso 93Marlène Elias and Judith Carney8 Working on the Global Assembly Line 109Altha J. Cravey9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada 123Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography 138Rachel Silvey11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry 150Ayda Eraydýn and Asuman Turkun-Erendil12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization 166Vidyamali Samarasinghe13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship 179Susan Hanson and Megan Blake14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating "Thus Far and No Further" Supportive Structures. A Case from India 194Saraswati RajuPart III City 20915 Feminist Geographies of the "City": Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings 211Valerie Preston and Ebru Ustundag16 Spaces of Change: Gender, Information Technology, and New Geographies of Mobility and Fixity in the Early Twentieth-century Information Economy 228Kate Boyer17 Gender and the City: The Different Formations of Belonging 242Tovi Fenster18 Urban Space in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed 257Hille Koskela19 Daycare Services Provision for Working Women in Japan 271Kamiya Hiroo20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with "Empowerment" in India and South Africa 291Richa Nagar and Amanda Lock Swarr21 Moving beyond "Gender and GIS" to a Feminist Perspective on Information Technologies: The Impactof Welfare Reform on Women's IT Needs 305Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci22 Women Outdoors: Destabilizing the Public/Private Dichotomy 322Phil HubbardPart IV Body 33523 Situating Bodies 337Robyn Longhurst24 Bodies, State Discipline, and the Performance of Gender in a South African Women's Prison 350Teresa Dirsuweit25 HIV/AIDS Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman's Body 363Kawango Agot26 British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation 379Robina Mohammad27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad 398Jasbir Kaur PuarPart V Environment 41728 Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the "Woman Question" in Sustainable Developmentto Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana–Chacuey, Dominican Republic 419Dianne Rocheleau29 Gender Relations beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods 434Anoja Wickramasinghe30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology 445Jody Emel and Julie Urbanik31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures 458Jennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang32 Geographic Information and Women's Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example 486Sara McLafferty33 Performing a "Global Sense of Place": Women's Actions for Environmental Justice 496Giovanna Di ChiroPart VI State/Nation 51734 Feminist Political Geographies 519Eleonore Kofman35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 534Mona Domosh36 Virility and Violation in the US "War on Terrorism" 550Matthew G. Hannah37 Feminist Geopolitics and September 11 565Jennifer Hyndman38 Love for Sale: Marketing Gay Male P/Leisure Space in Contemporary Cape Town, South Africa 578Glen S. Elder39 Women's Struggles for Sustainable Peace in Post-conflict Peru: A Feminist Analysis of Violence and Change 590Maureen Hays-MitchellIndex 607