A Companion to Feminist Geography

Introduction /Lise Nelson,Joni Seager --PART I. CONTEXTS --Situating gender /Liz Bondi,Joyce Davidson --Anti-racist feminism in geogrpahy: an agenda for social action /Audrey Kobayashi --A bodily notion of research: power, difference, and specificity in feminist methodology /Pamela Moss --Transnational mobilities and challenges /Brenda S.A. Yeoh --PART II. WORK --Feminist analyses of work: rethinking the boundaries, gendering, and spatiality of work /Kim England,Victoria Lawson --Shea Butter, globalization, and women of Burkina Faso /Marlène Elias,Judith Carney --Working on the global assembly line /Altha J. Cravey --From migrant to immigrant: domestic workers settle in Vancouver, Canada /Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre --Borders, embodiment, and mobility: feminist migration studies in geography /Rachel Silvey --The changing roles of female labor in economic expansion and decline: the case of the Istanbul clothing industry /Ayda Eraydin,Asuman Turkun-Erendil --Female labor in sex trafficking: a darker side of globalization /Vidyamali Samarasinghe --Changing the gender of entrepreneurship /Susan Hanson,Megan Blake --Gender and empowerment: creating "Thus far and no further" supportive structures. A case from India /Saraswati Raju --PART III. CITY --Feminist geographies of the "city": multiple voices, multiple meanings /Valerie Preston,Ebru Ustundag --Spaces of change: gender, information technology, and new geographies of mobility and fixity in the early twentieth-century information economy /Kate Boyer --Gender and the city: the different formations of belonging /Tovi Fenster --Urban space in plural: elastic, tamed, suppressed /Hille Koskela --Daycare services provision for working women in Japan /Kamiya Hiroo --Organizing from the margins: grappling with "empowerment" in India and South Africa /Richa Nagar,Amanda Lock Swarr --Moving beyond "gender and GIS" to a feminist perspective on information technologies: the impact of welfare reform on women's IT needs /Melissa R. Gilbert,Michele Masucci --Women outdoors: destabilizing the public/private dichotomy /Phil Hubbard --PART IV. BODY --Situating bodies /Robyn Longhurst --Bodies, state discipline, and the performance of gender in a South African women's prison /Teresa Dirsuweit --HIV/AIDS interventions and the politics of the African woman's body /Kawango Agot --British Pakistani Muslim women: marking the body, marking the nation /Robina Mohammad --Transversal circuits: transnational sexualities and Trinidad /Jasbir Kaur Puar --PART V. ENVIRONMENT --Listening to the landscapes of Mama Tingo: from the "Woman question" in sustainable development to feminist political ecology in Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic /Dianne Rocheleu --Gender relations beyond farm fences: reframing the spatial context of local forest livelihoods /Anoja Wickramasinghe --The new species of capitalism: an ecofeminist comment on animal biotechnology /Jody Emel,Julie Urbanik --Siren songs: gendered discourses of concern for sea creatures /Jennifer Wolch,Jin Zhang --Geographic information and women's empowerment: a breast cancer example /Sara McLafferty --Performing a "global sense of place": women's actions for environmental justice /Giovanna Di Chiro --PART IV. STATE/NATION --Feminist political geographies /Eleonore Kofman --Gender, race, and nationalism: American identity and economic imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century /Mona Domosh --Virility and violation in the US "War on Terrorism" /Matthew G. Hannah --Feminist geopolitics and September 11 /Jennifer Hyndman --Love for sale: marketing gay male p/leisure space in contemporary Cape Town, South Africa /Glen S. Elder --Women's struggles for sustainable peace in post-conflict Peru: a feminist analysis of violence and change /Maureen Hays-Mitchell.