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COMPLEX LOCATIONS
WOMEN'S GEOGRAPHICAL WORK IN THE UK 1850-1970

By:

Avril Maddrell

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Hardback

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1405145560

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9781405145565

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Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

9 April, 2009

Series:

RGS-IBG Book Series

Pages:

432

Description:

In this important volume, Avril Maddrell traces the often overlooked contributions of women to the study of geography, and illustrates how women played a significant role in the development of the field as an academic discipline.

Synopsis:

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

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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

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