Writing women and space : colonial and postcolonial geographies / edited by Alison Blunt, Gillian Rose.
| Other author | Blunt, Alison. |
| Other author | Rose, Gillian. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Guilford Press, ©1994. |
| Description | ix, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Mappings Mappings. ^A318087 |
| Contents | Introduction : women's colonial and postcolonial geographies / Alison Blunt and Gillian Rose -- Knowledge, gender, and empire / Sara Mills -- Mapping authorship and authority : reading Mary Kingsley's landscape descriptions / Alison Blunt -- Encounters with West African women : textual representations of difference by white women abroad / Cheryl McEwan -- Colonizing gender in colonial Australia : the Eliza Fraser story / Kay Schaffer -- Gender, war, and imagined geographies : United States women and the "far flung" fronts of World War II / Judy Barrett Litoff, David C. Smith --Occupying the suburban frontier : accommodating difference on Melbourne's urban fringe / Louise Johnson -- Earth honoring : Western desires and indigenous knowledges / Jane M. Jacobs -- White women researching/representing "others" : from antiapartheid to postcolonialism? / Jennifer Robinson -- Remapping the body/land : new cartographies of identity, gender, and landscape in Ireland / Catherine Nash. |
| Local note | Little-290287--305130043375Y |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 94011691 |
| ISBN | 0898624975 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0898624983 (pbk. : alk. paper) |