Complex Locations: Women's Geographical Work in the UK 1850-1970ISBN: 978-1-4051-4555-8
Paperback
432 pages
May 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women
who played a critical role in the development of geography as an
academic field.
- A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970
- Includes oral histories from women who have held appointments in British universities since World War II
- Makes the work of women geographers visible and challenges the notion of pre 1970s geography as an overwhelmingly masculine field
- Makes an important contribution to debates about the theoretical and methodological framing of the historiography of geography