Washington Women: Practicing Geography in the U.S. Government, 1915–1970s

Monk, Janice

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“…The last year has, in this respect, seen clusters of work attentive, variously, to women’s role in the professional practice of geography (see Ginsburger, 2017; Jöns et al, 2017; Keighren, 2017; Monk, 2017); to the development of critical geography in 20th-century Brazil, particularly through the defining work of Milton Santos (see Ferretti, 2018; Ferretti and Pedrosa, 2018; Melgaço, 2017; Melgaço and Prouse, 2017); to the contributions of Clarence Glacken to the field of environmental history (Rajan, 2017, 2018); and to the ongoing significance of biography as a means of revealing, narrating, and challenging disciplinary histories (see Baigent and Novaes, 2018; Barnes, 2017; Cotoi, 2018; Craggs and Neate, 2018; Downs, 2017; Ferretti, 2019; Lois, 2018; Portuondo, 2018; Tammiksaar et al, 2018).…”

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History and philosophy of geography III: The haunted, the reviled, and the plural

Keighren

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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This report takes a new English-language translation of Friedrich Ratzel’s infamous essay Der Lebensraum (1901) as a prompt to consider the ethical questions that are raised by revisiting geography’s dangerous ideas and discredited practitioners. Attending to a series of recent interventions that offer new readings of Ratzel and his essay, I consider how historiographical practice and moral obligation intersect in the process of making sense of, and coming to terms with, disciplinary pasts that haunt the present. The report concludes by considering the future of the series of which it forms part and argues that the task of narrating progress in the history and philosophy of geography should be assumed by a more diverse range of authors than has heretofore been the case.

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History and philosophy of geography III: The haunted, the reviled, and the plural

Keighren

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Other scholars have explored female geographers' (gendered) experiences in universities -for example, Jöns's (2017) comparative study of the careers of male and female academics at the University of Cambridge between 1926 and 1955 -as well as in spaces we might think of as lying 'beyond the academy'. Thus Monk (2017) examines women geographers in US government agencies, Jacobs and Lees (2013) chart the contribution of British geographer Alice Coleman to urban planning and Norcup (2015, 62) explores the 'grey literature' of geography's canon, including the work of schoolteacher and scholar-activist Dawn Gill on the journal Contemporary Issues in Geography and Education. Such scholarship has been hugely valuable in bringing feminist theory to bear on the locations and networks through which geographical and imperial knowledge was produced, although -like studies of female travellers and scientists -it has tended to focus on 'pioneering' and relatively privileged women.…”

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Feminist historical geographies: doing and being

McDonagh

2018

Gender, Place & Culture

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Reflecting on her own experience of being a graduate student in the early 1990s, Boyer (2004,(169)(170) suggests that 'if uncertainty existed over what it meant to be a feminist geographer, what it meant to be a feminist historical geographer was even less clear' (my emphasis). That was more than 25 years ago at around the time Gender, Place and Culture was first published (on which see Domosh and Ruwanpura, 2018) but much the same is arguably true today, even whilst women, gender and feminist approaches to the past are now well evidenced within the sub-discipline of historical geography. As Domosh and Morin (2003, 257) noted in their review in GPC, feminist historical geography 'rarely travels under its own name' and the term remains little used outside North America. As an UK-based scholar who consciously identifies as writing feminist historical geographies (McDonagh, 2017, 2), I am perhaps particularly aware of the challenges and opportunities presented by such ambiguities and uncertainties. In what follows, I explore some of the possibilities and prospects for feminist historical geographies and geographers.Here I define feminist historical geography as scholarship which asks geographical questions of historical material and is informed by feminist theories, approaches and methodologies. Its empirical subject matter is necessarily expansive and diverse, but often has a particular focus on the lives of women and other marginalized groups, and on the ways gender and space were -and are -co-constituted. This essay interrogates recent developments within this broad terrain, specifically articles and books published since 2000 and either appearing in geography journals or written by those self-identifying as geographers. The main exception is work by historians and archaeologists interested in gender, space and place, which is cited here in an attempt to open up new research directions for feminist historical geographers. The material discussed here was primarily written by Anglophone geographers, whilst recognising and acknowledging that the Anglo-American hegemony in feminist geography -and feminism more generally -is problematic (on this, see Garcia Ramon et al., 2006)]. In what follows, we shuttle across spaces and between scales, roaming from the sites of empire to the intimate geographies of the home,

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“…Maria Dolors Garcia ramon and colleagues (Garcia--ramon, Castañer, & Centelles, 1988) documented that into the 1980s women employed in spanish universities were mostly limited to low ranking positions associated with preparing teachers. recent research in the Us however (Monk, 2017), and perhaps elsewhere, has identified some women who attained senior positions as applied geographers in government agencies. i raise this theme partly because the University of Lisbon offers both geography and planning.…”

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Finisterra Annual Lecture: Placing gender in geography, directions, challenges, and opportunities

Monk¹

2018

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Since the emergence of interest in gender in the late 20th century its significance has become widely, though unevenly, included in research, teaching, and applied work in human geography and related social sciences. This Finisterra Annual Lecture reviews aspects of engagement internationally – where and how work has developed, themes addressed, methods applied, and approaches to dissemination. It notes advances made and some continuing challenges.

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Washington Women: Practicing Geography in the U.S. Government, 1915–1970s

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History and philosophy of geography III: The haunted, the reviled, and the plural

History and philosophy of geography III: The haunted, the reviled, and the plural

Feminist historical geographies: doing and being

Finisterra Annual Lecture: Placing gender in geography, directions, challenges, and opportunities

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