Staeheli, Lynn A., Kofman, Eleonore, Peake, Linda J. (eds.), 2004, Mapping Women, Making Politics; Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography

摘要

Political geography was during a long time a male dominated domain within geography. Feminist geography developed first in urban geography and development studies. More recent is the feminist critique on the neglect of gender from political geographical analysis and the tendency to define political geography in such a way that gender seems to be irrelevant. In the past decade a few special issues on feminist political geography are published in Political Geography (1994) and Space and Polity (2001). However, 'Mapping Women, Making Politics' is the first comprehensive book on this topic. The idea for this book resulted from a series of panel sessions at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Pittsburgh in 2000. The panellists were aware of the widening gap between the growing richness of feminist political geographical theoretical and empirical work, and the silence on gender issues in mainstream political geography. Three geographers with an outstanding record on feminist political geography, Lynn Staeheli, Eleonore Kofman and Linda Peake, brought together 23 female and one male well reputed authors. The majority of the authors are North American or British.