Bridging Worlds - Building Feminist Geographies
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This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography. The collection is published as part of the series International Studies of Women and Place that Janice Monk co-edited with Janet Momsen for over 30 years. The chapters, from over 45 leading international scholars, encompass key areas Monk has contributed to within feminist geography.
The collaborative nature of this project reflects the networks and themes Monk nurtured throughout her long and impactful career. The…mehr

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This book marks the 30th anniversary of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, honouring the contributions of Janice Monk in establishing the field of feminist geography. The collection is published as part of the series International Studies of Women and Place that Janice Monk co-edited with Janet Momsen for over 30 years. The chapters, from over 45 leading international scholars, encompass key areas Monk has contributed to within feminist geography.

The collaborative nature of this project reflects the networks and themes Monk nurtured throughout her long and impactful career. The book provides critical insights to wide-ranging topics that include the development of feminist geography in different global contexts, gendered geographies of work and everyday life, and gender and environmental concerns.

Diverse voices and perspectives in this book will serve as invaluable resources for scholars interested in gender and feminist geographies, the history of theIGU Commission on Gender and Geography, career trajectories of women geographers in different parts of the world, gendered geographies of the life course, as well as feminist analyses of environmental issues. The book will be useful to students, educators, and activists in gender studies, development studies, and human geography.
Autorenporträt
Anindita Datta is Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Delhi and the current Chair of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography. Her work focuses on gendered and epistemic violence, indigenous feminisms, spaces of resistance and geographies of care. A member of several international editorial boards and collaborations such as the NORAD, Linnaeus Palme and Erasmus Mundus programmes, Anindita is committed to feminist mentoring and building transformative networks of care across differences. Her recent books include Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes and the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geography (co-editor). Janet Momsen was a founding member of the Gender Commission in 1988 and was Chair from then until 1996, continuing as Treasurer until 2006. She is Emerita Professor of Geography, University of California, Davis. Her research is mainly on gender and agricultural development. She has also taught in England, Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and South Africa. She has published 17 books, founded and is current Editor of the Routledge series on International Studies of Women and Place. Ann M. Oberhauser is Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University and holds a PhD in Geography from Clark University. Her research focuses on feminist economic geography, gender and globalization, feminist pedagogy, and critical development studies with an emphasis on rural economic strategies in Appalachia and sub-Saharan Africa. Her publications include Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context and Global Perspectives on Gender and Space. Oberhauser is a long-time member of the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender, the Society of Woman Geographers, and the Feminist Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.