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A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography LINDA McDowELL & JOANNE P. SHARP (Eds), 1999 London & New York, Arnold 372 pp., C50/$65 ISBN 0-340-70659-7 hardback
Over the years, in the absence of a glossary specialising in feminist geography, I have consulted, and referred students to, various glossaries of feminist thought and human geography. In many instance these glossaries prove inadequate. The former often fail to recognise the significance of place, location and geographical specificity while the latter often fail to recognise the important contribution made to the discipline by feminism. Now, finally, A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography edited by Linda McDowell & Joanne Sharp is welcome and long overdue.
In the introduction the editors make the point that the discipline of geography has undergone a great deal of change over the last few years. `A wide range of new ideas and concepts ... entered the vocabulary of the discipline and changed the nature of academic debates' (p. iu). The Glossary is an attempt to capture some of these significant changes in the context of feminist debates. So, too, is the companion volume, Space, Gender, Knowledge: feminist readings (1997), also edited by McDowell & Sharp.
In the Glossary links are made backwards to...