Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies

by Linda McDowell

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Genres: Gender, Feminism, Nonfiction, Geography, Theory, Gender Studies

294 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1998

Reviews

[Levantino · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book deals with issues voiced in its title from a feminist perspective, but its arguments may well be applied to a more general framework including all designations of gender. The relation between home and self, the community's influence on our identities and the distinction between public and private places are some of the issues McDowell focuses on.

[Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't really understand parts of it. However, it was fascinating.

[niina · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had some pretty neat points of view that I hadn't really taken to consideration earlier on, and a lot of theories were more or less loosely tied to the subjects considered. I don't feel I've quite grasped the need for the whole geographical branch in the feminist studies though: previously I didn't even know it existed, geographical studies are mostly blur in my books themselves, and I felt most points here could be expressed elsewhere just as well. So this book didn't really differ all that much from others I've read for my gender studies, although it did fold together many limbs into which I've run into previously but either bypassed or just browsed through after deeming them irrelevant to the matter at hand. So it surely proved itself useful and important in the sense of raising up subjects that tend to be ignored for one reason or another.

I'm not too into the style this book was written in. The author supports her reader faithfully until the end, but not being too familiar with English academic texts to begin with, I found this suffocating. When I expected to meet a new subject, to begin a new chapter, I was forced to go back to what I just read and to review. Unacceptable! It was also quite difficult to find the main arguments and the most important content from the huge walls of text that were everything but attractive. Often I found myself wondering whether I was reading the authors own ideas or somebody else's, and after a while I kind of had to give up on trying to see the two as separate.

[Abigail Barefoot · Rating 3 out of 5]

This books was more of a "why gender is important to research" rather than an exploration of what is feminist geography and how to do it. As someone who studies feminist theory I found most of it to be review, though some of the case studies were interesting.