Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies (Mappings: Society/Theory/Space)

ISBN 10: 0898624983 / ISBN 13: 9780898624984

Published by The Guilford Press, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies (Mappings: Society/Theory/Space)
• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898624983
• ISBN 13: 9780898624984
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which white women have written and mapped different geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today, illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture, cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different understandings and representations of people and place.

About the Author

Alison Blunt, M.A., is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Southampton in England.