A Companion to Feminist Geography

<p>List of Contributors ix</p>
<p>Acknowledgments xviii</p>
<p>1 Introduction 1<br /> Lise Nelson and Joni Seager</p>
<p>Part I Contexts 13</p>
<p>2 Situating Gender 15<br /> Liz Bondi and Joyce Davidson</p>
<p>3 Anti–racist Feminism in Geography: An Agenda for Social Action 32<br /> Audrey Kobayashi</p>
<p>4 A Bodily Notion of Research: Power, Difference, and Specificity in Feminist Methodology 41<br /> Pamela Moss</p>
<p>5 Transnational Mobilities and Challenges 60<br /> Brenda S. A. Yeoh</p>
<p>Part II Work 75</p>
<p>6 Feminist Analyses of Work: Rethinking the Boundaries, Gendering, and Spatiality of Work 77<br /> Kim England and Victoria Lawson</p>
<p>7 Shea Butter, Globalization, and Women of Burkina Faso 93<br /> Marl&egrave;ne Elias and Judith Carney</p>
<p>8 Working on the Global Assembly Line 109<br /> Altha J. Cravey</p>
<p>9 From Migrant to Immigrant: Domestic Workers Settle in Vancouver, Canada 123<br /> Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre</p>
<p>10 Borders, Embodiment, and Mobility: Feminist Migration Studies in Geography 138<br /> Rachel Silvey</p>
<p>11 The Changing Roles of Female Labor in Economic Expansion and Decline: The Case of the Istanbul Clothing Industry 150<br /> Ayda Erayd&yacute;n and Asuman Turkun–Erendil</p>
<p>12 Female Labor in Sex Trafficking: A Darker Side of Globalization 166<br /> Vidyamali Samarasinghe</p>
<p>13 Changing the Gender of Entrepreneurship 179<br /> Susan Hanson and Megan Blake</p>
<p>14 Gender and Empowerment: Creating Thus Far and No Further Supportive Structures. A Case from India 194<br /> Saraswati Raju</p>
<p>Part III City 209</p>
<p>15 Feminist Geographies of the City : Multiple Voices, Multiple Meanings 211<br /> Valerie Preston and Ebru Ustundag</p>
<p>16 Spaces of Change: Gender, Information Technology, and New Geographies of Mobility and Fixity in the Early Twentieth–century Information Economy 228<br /> Kate Boyer</p>
<p>17 Gender and the City: The Different Formations of Belonging 242<br /> Tovi Fenster</p>
<p>18 Urban Space in Plural: Elastic, Tamed, Suppressed 257<br /> Hille Koskela</p>
<p>19 Daycare Services Provision for Working Women in Japan 271<br /> Kamiya Hiroo</p>
<p>20 Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with Empowerment in India and South Africa 291<br /> Richa Nagar and Amanda Lock Swarr</p>
<p>21 Moving beyond Gender and GIS to a Feminist Perspective on Information Technologies: The Impact<br /> of Welfare Reform on Women s IT Needs 305<br /> Melissa R. Gilbert and Michele Masucci</p>
<p>22 Women Outdoors: Destabilizing the Public/Private Dichotomy 322<br /> Phil Hubbard</p>
<p>Part IV Body 335</p>
<p>23 Situating Bodies 337<br /> Robyn Longhurst</p>
<p>24 Bodies, State Discipline, and the Performance of Gender in a South African Women s Prison 350<br /> Teresa Dirsuweit</p>
<p>25 HIV/AIDS Interventions and the Politics of the African Woman s Body 363<br /> Kawango Agot</p>
<p>26 British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation 379<br /> Robina Mohammad</p>
<p>27 Transversal Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad 398<br /> Jasbir Kaur Puar</p>
<p>Part V Environment 417</p>
<p>28 Listening to the Landscapes of Mama Tingo: From the Woman Question in Sustainable Development<br /> to Feminist Political Ecology in Zambrana Chacuey, Dominican Republic 419<br /> Dianne Rocheleau</p>
<p>29 Gender Relations beyond Farm Fences: Reframing the Spatial Context of Local Forest Livelihoods 434<br /> Anoja Wickramasinghe</p>
<p>30 The New Species of Capitalism: An Ecofeminist Comment on Animal Biotechnology 445<br /> Jody Emel and Julie Urbanik</p>
<p>31 Siren Songs: Gendered Discourses of Concern for Sea Creatures 458<br /> Jennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang</p>
<p>32 Geographic Information and Women s Empowerment: A Breast Cancer Example 486<br /> Sara McLafferty</p>
<p>33 Performing a Global Sense of Place : Women s Actions for Environmental Justice 496<br /> Giovanna Di Chiro</p>
<p>Part VI State/Nation 517</p>
<p>34 Feminist Political Geographies 519<br /> Eleonore Kofman</p>
<p>35 Gender, Race, and Nationalism: American Identity and Economic Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 534<br /> Mona Domosh</p>
<p>36 Virility and Violation in the US War on Terrorism 550<br /> Matthew G. Hannah</p>
<p>37 Feminist Geopolitics and September 11 565<br /> Jennifer Hyndman</p>
<p>38 Love for Sale: Marketing Gay Male P/Leisure Space in Contemporary Cape Town, South Africa 578<br /> Glen S. Elder</p>
<p>39 Women s Struggles for Sustainable Peace in Post–conflict Peru: A Feminist Analysis of Violence and Change 590<br /> Maureen Hays–Mitchell</p>
<p>Index 607</p>