Women and Cartography in the Progressive Era

ISBN-13: 9780367245306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Christina E. Dando

Opis

Capturing the untold and numerous ways in which women and maps interacted during the Progressive Era (1890-1930), this book uses three historical examples from North America to argue that maps were essential for women not only to find their way in the world but also to construct and communicate their own world views.

Spis treści

1. The Power and the Pleasure 2. Women, Geographic Knowledge, and Mobility 3. "Woman’s Work" Part I – American Women Missionary Geographies 4. "Woman’s Work" Part II – Hull-House and Social Settlement Work 5. Changing the Map – Political Activism, Geography, and Cartography 6. Maps in Motion, Women in Motion

O autorze

Christina E. Dando is Professor of Geography at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She received her B.A. in Geography and English from the University of North Dakota and her M.S. and Ph.D.s in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include the impacts of media and technology on human perception and interaction with the environment, particularly the Great Plains. She is also interested in gender and geography, how landscape and environment have long been gendered as well as how gender impacts human experience and interaction with the environment. She is a member of the American Association of Geographers and of the Society of Woman Geographers. When not researching and writing, she enjoys exploring new landscapes and reading for sheer pleasure.