Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Place and Gender; 2 In and Out of Place: Bodies and Embodiment; 3 Home, Place and Identity; 4 Community, City and Locality; 5 Work/Workplaces; 6 In Public: the Street and Spaces of Pleasure; 7 Gendering the Nation-State; 8 Displacements; 9 Postscript: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Feminist Research; References; Index
Summary
Feminist approaches within the social sciences have expanded enormously since the 1960s. In addition, in recent years, geographic perspectives have become increasingly significant as feminist recognition of the differences between women, their diverse experiences in different parts of the world and the importance of location in the social construction of knowledge has placed varied geographies at the centre of contemporary feminist and postmodern debates. Gender, Identity and Place is an accessible and clearly written introduction to the wide field of issues that have been addressed by
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and index
