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Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies by Linda McDowell

Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies Linda McDowell ebook
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Format: pdf
Page: 284
ISBN: 0816633932, 9780816633937

Understanding feminist geographies. Her most recent book Working Bodies (2009) is about interactive service sector employment and workplace identities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. She has been at the forefront in the development of feminist perspectives on contemporary social and economic change, as well as in the development of feminist methodologies and pedagogic practices. McGill University, Montreal, QC, March 15, 2001. As a working-class woman who is transit-dependent and also critically attendant to the relationship between race, class, gender and transportation, I was especially disturbed when I read a brief article in the Los Angeles Times about the rape of a I don't know the racial identity/identities of the victim but I wonder if the fact that the bus is frequently inhabited by women (and for that matter women of color), is what made it such an 'opportunistic' site for a rape to occur. She has published widely in geographical journals, She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Capital Culture (Blackwell, 1997), Gender, Identity and Place (Polity, 1999), Redundant Masculinities? McDowell, Linda “In Public: The Streets and Spaces of Pleasure.” in Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies. Narratives of nation media, memory and representation in the making of the new south Africa. The process deals with questions related to interactive/collaborative/dialogical processes, knowledge systems, negotiated strategies, representation, gender, identity, and discourse about what is contemporary in contemporary art. Paper presented at Night and the City.