A Companion to Feminist Geography (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1394349521 ISBN 13: 9781394349524

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2025

Synopsis

A Companion to Feminist Geography captures 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.

"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, A 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, City University of New York

About this title

About the Author

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).

From the Back Cover

A Companion to Feminist Geography captures 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.

The Companion, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1394349521
• ISBN 13: 9781394349524
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Nelson Lise, Seager Joni