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 overwhelmingl...
Inhoudsopgave
List of Figures and Tables.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Putting Women in their Place: Women in the Historiography of
Geography.
2. Women and British Geographica...
Over de auteur
Avril Maddrell is a social, cultural and historical geographer, specializing in gender and geographical thought. She has taught at Westminster College in Oxford, the ...