Thresholds in Feminist Geography

Edited by John Paul Jones III; Heidi J. Nast and Susan M. Roberts - Contributions by Sherry Ahrentzen; Karen Fa...

This innovative collection explores the concept of space as it relates to feminist studies. Utilizing a range of theoretical perspectives, a distinguished group of international scholars crosses over the 'thresholds' of difference, methodology, and representation that challenge feminist geography.

Introduction, John Paul Jones III, Heidi J. Nast, and Susan M. Roberts; Difference - the paradox of difference and diversity (or, Why the threshold keeps moving), Audrey Kobayashi; community, identity and place, Laura Pulido; identity, space and politics - a critique of the poverty debates, Melissa R. Gilbert; women's life courses, spatial mobility, and state policies, Glenda Laws; making space - separatism and difference, Gill Valentine; the meaning of home workplaces for women, Sherry Ahrentzen; hearing from quiet students - the politics of science and of voice in geography classrooms, Karen Nairn; methodological frontiers; as the world turns - new horizons in feminist geographic methodologies, Susan Hanson; counting women's work - the intersection of place and time, Vidyamali Samarasinghe; feminist critical realism - a method for gender and work studies in geography, Karen Falconer Al-Hindi; the home as "field" - researching households and homework in rural Appalachia, Ann Oberhauser; dialogue with difference - a tale of two studies, Isabel Dyck; exploring methodological borderlands through oral narratives, Richa Nagar; with "stout boots and a stout heart" - feminist methodology and historical gepgraphy, Mona Domosh; representation; marginal notes on representation, Janice Monk; charting the other map(s) - cartography and visual methods in feminist research, Nikolas H. Huffman; for whom shall we write? what voice shall we use? which story shall we tell?, Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher; redefining the barricades - latina lesbian politics and the creation of an oppositional public sphere, Patricia Meono-Picado; gender, race and diaspora - racialized identities of emigrant Irish women, Bronwen Walter; sweet surrender, but what's the gender? - nature and the body in the writings of 19th-century Mormon women, Jeanne Kay; the cultural construction of rurality - gender identities and the rural idyll, Francine Watkins.