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 InfoNew York : Guilford Press, ©1994.
Descriptionix, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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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 noteLittle-290287--305130043375Y
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 94011691
ISBN0898624975 (alk. paper)
ISBN0898624983 (pbk. : alk. paper)