Mapping Women, Making Politics : Feminism and Political Geography

Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of settings and topics including nationalism, migration, development, international relations, elections, social movements, governance and the environment in the Global North and South. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 8 Mapping Gender, Making Politics: Toward Feminist Political Geographies......Page 10 Contextualizing Feminist Political Theory......Page 24 Mapping Feminisms and Difference......Page 40 From Dualisms to Multiplicities: Gendered Political Practices......Page 58 Placing Gendered Political Acts......Page 80 Doing Feminist Political Geographies......Page 96 Development, Postcolonialism, and Feminist Political Geography......Page 108 Critically Feminist Geopolitics......Page 122 Gendered Globalization......Page 136 Territory, Territoriality, and Boundaries......Page 150 Embodied Nationalisms......Page 162 The (Geo)Politics of Gendered Mobility......Page 178 Crossing Borders: Gender and Migration......Page 194 Social Movements, Protest, and Resistance......Page 208 A Gendered Politics of the Environment......Page 218 Making Feminist Sense of the State and Citizenship......Page 236 Framing Feminist Claims for Urban Citizenship......Page 254 Feminizing Electoral Geography......Page 270 References......Page 282 Contributors......Page 314 Index......Page 318 This reader demonstrates the ways in which gender interacts with other dimensions of difference to shape political processes and the politics of space. Edited By Lynn A. Staeheli, Eleonore Kofman, Linda J. Peake. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 273-304) And Index.