Writing Women and Space Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies [Paperback]

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.

...is a useful contribution to the literature on gender perspectives of the colonized world... --Helen Ruth Aspaas,African Studies Review

...presents compelling ways of bringing together ideas from poststructuralist and postcolonial theory around geographical questions, and provides much material, both for those working within a similar intellectual territory, and for those grappling with more general methodological questions. I should find its place on many reading lists, if it has not already done so, as it provides an accessible contribution to contemporary debates around identity, space, and power. -- R. Elmhirst, Wye College University of London,Environment and Planning A

This timely collection of essays explores ways in which feminism, space, and the politics of identity, subjectivity, and representation come together in diverse colonial and postcolonial settings....I unhesitatingly invite colleagues and students across disciplines to read this fresh and imaginative collection of essays.... --Karen Morin,Growth and Change

As edited volumes go, this is a remarkably coherent (and successful) one.... This book makes an important contribution to feminist geography. --Geraldine Pratt, University of British Collc2