A Companion to Feminist Geographycaptures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field. It shows how feminist geography has altered the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s, reframing fundamental approaches across a range of disciplines, including architecture, environmental studies, and geography. Further, it situates feminist geography within the context of geographical thought and within interdisciplinary feminist debates.

TheCompanion, featuring contributors from around the world, explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today, tracing the emergence of key debates in the field. The volume reflects the various sites and locations from which feminist geographical analysis is being produced; and it includes a systematic assessment of feminist contributions to major sub-fields in geography, covering both established subjects, such as labor, urban, and environmental geography, and emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation.

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. Within sections on contexts, work, city, body, environment, and state and nation, geographers from around the world consider such topics as anti-racist feminism in geography, the Istanbul clothing industry as an example of the changing role of female labor in economic expansion and decline, daycare services provision for working women in Japan, transnational sexualities and Trinidad, reframing the spatial context of local forest livelihoods, and virility and violation in the US War on Terrorism.
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A Companion to Feminist Geographycaptures the breadth and diversity of this vibrant and substantive field.

• Shows how feminist geography has changed the landscape of geographical inquiry and knowledge since the 1970s.

• Explores the diverse literatures that comprise feminist geography today.

• Showcases cutting-edge research by feminist geographers.

• Charts emerging areas of scholarship, such as the body and the nation.

• Contributions from 50 leading international scholars in the field.
• Each chapter can be read for its own distinctive contribution.

Lise Nelsonis 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 Seageris 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).

Part I: Contexts.

Part II: Work.

Part III City/

Built Environments/

Community.

Part IV Body/

Identities.

Part V: Nature/

Environment.

Part VI: State/

Nation/Public Power