Putting Women in Place : Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World

Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Preface xix Home 1(34) The Separation of Spheres 2(4) At Home with the Victorians 6(8) Reading the Parlor 8(4) Cleaning the Parlor 12(2) Tastemakers and Home Engineering 14(6) Social Engineering 20(4) The Suburban Home 24(4) The Postmodern Home 28(2) Home-Work Relations 30(5) Women at Work 35(32) What Is Work? 38(3) What Counts? 41(6) Footloose Factories and Nimble Fingers: The New Industrial Order 47(6) Homework 53(3) The Return of the Sweatshop 56(1) Between the Sticky Floor and the Glass Ceiling 57(1) Gender in the Workplace 58(5) Mapping the Terrian of Poverty 63(4) The City 67(43) Masculine City, Feminine Country? 69(3) The Early Modern City 72(4) The Industrial City 76(19) Working Women 82(6) Shopping Women 88(5) Regulating Women 93(2) The Modern City 95(4) The Postmodern City 99(11) Crime and Safety 99(1) Homelessness 100(1) Gentrification 101(3) Diverse Suburbs 104(1) The Culture of Shopping 105(2) Downtown 107(3) On the Move 110(30) The Body in Space 110(3) Getting Around: First Principles 113(2) Keeping Women in Their Place 115(3) Roaming and ``Homing'' 118(4) Breaking the Bonds of Space and Sex 122(1) Auto-masculinity 123(6) Global Migration 129(5) Refugees 134(2) The Sex Trade 136(4) Nations and Empires 140(34) Victorian Lady Travelers 143(3) Women and Colonial Space 146(10) Domestic Space on the Frontier 147(3) Domestic Space in the Colonies 150(2) Bringing the Imperial Home 152(4) Feminism and Imperialism 156(4) Gender and Nationalism 160(8) Women in Nationalist Movements 168(2) Nationalisms and Sexualities 170(4) The Environment 174(21) Mothers and Other Forces of Nature 174(5) Control 179(5) Encounters in the Environment 184(2) Studying Nature 186(2) Environmental Perception 188(1) Environmental Activism and Ecofeminism 188(7) References 195(14) Index 209 About the Authors 216