Description |
xxiii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index. |
Contents |
Home -- The Separation of Spheres -- At Home with the Victorians -- Reading the Parlor -- Cleaning the Parlor -- Tastemakers and Home Engineering -- Social Engineering -- The Suburban Home -- The Postmodern Home -- Home-Work Relations -- Women at Work -- What Is Work? -- What Counts? -- Footloose Factories and Nimble Fingers: The New Industrial Order -- Homework -- The Return of the Sweatshop -- Between the Sticky Floor and the Glass Ceiling -- Gender in the Workplace -- Mapping the Terrain of Poverty -- The City -- Masculine City, Feminine Country? -- The Early Modern City -- The Industrial City -- Working Women -- Shopping Women -- Regulating Women -- The Modern City -- The Postmodern City -- Crime and Safety -- Homelessness -- Gentrification -- Diverse Suburbs -- The Culture of Shopping -- Downtown -- On The Move -- The Body in Space -- Getting Around: First Principles -- Keeping Women in Their Place -- Roaming and "Homing" -- Breaking the Bonds of Space and Sex -- Auto-masculinity -- Global Migration -- Refugees -- The Sex Trade -- Nations and Empires -- Victorian Lady Travelers -- Women and Colonial Space -- Domestic Space on the Frontier -- Domestic Space in the Colonies -- Bringing the Imperial Home -- Feminism and Imperialism -- Gender and Nationalism -- Women in Nationalist Movements -- Nationalisms and Sexualities -- The Environment -- Mothers and Other Forces of Nature -- Control -- Encounters in the Environment -- Studying Nature -- Environmental Perception -- Environmental Activism and Ecofeminism. |
Summary |
Why do women and men tend to work in different jobs, in different ways, and in different spaces? Which is more "masculine"--The city or the suburbs? Why is nature often represented in feminine form? This thought-provoking book uses the lens of gender to provide an illuminating new perspective on the geography of everyday life. Domosh and Seager show how notions of maleness and femaleness have influenced our built environment, the locations in which we invest meaning, and the ways we live, work, travel, and explore. From the arrangement of furniture in Victorian homes to the movements of refugees over contemporary borders, the book explores gender patterns and roles across cultures and historical periods. It is lavishly illustrated with line drawings, photographs, and maps. -- From publisher's description. |
Subject |
Women -- Social conditions.
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Sex role -- History.
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Spatial behavior -- History.
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Feminist geography.
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Feminist geography. (OCoLC)fst00922777
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Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
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Spatial behavior. (OCoLC)fst01128787
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Women -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01176947
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Vrouwen.
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Gedrag.
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Ruimtelijke aspecten.
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
Seager, Joni.
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ISBN |
1572306688 (pbk.) |
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9781572306684 (pbk.) |
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