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Tables of Contents for Geographies of New Feminism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
viii
List of tables
ix
About the authors
x
Preface
xi
Acknowledgements
xiv
Introduction: geographies and new femininities
1
15
Introduction
1
2
What are `femininities'?
3
8
Geographies and femininities
11
3
Outline of the book
14
2
Changing worlds? Changing femininities?
16
25
Introduction
16
1
Globalising economies, cultures and politics
17
9
Fractured and fracturing identities
26
6
Spaces of oppression or spaces of opportunity? The emergence of new femininities
32
8
Conclusion
40
1
Working with genders and geographies
41
26
Introduction
41
2
The research projects
43
4
Working in `the field' with power and positionality
47
6
Working with `gender'
53
6
Working through geographies
59
6
Conclusions
65
2
The shifting geographies of femininity and emergency work in Peru
67
24
Nina Laurie
Introduction
67
1
Crisis and emergency employment in Peru
67
4
PAIT: new spaces for women?
71
3
Multiple and fractured identities
74
9
Shifting the ground of public/private and home and work
83
5
Superseding boundaries
88
1
Conclusion
89
2
Reproducing motherhood
91
22
Sarah L. Holloway
Introduction
91
1
The changing context of mothering in Britain
92
2
The Sheffield case study
94
2
Mapping mothering
96
12
Configuring geographies and new femininities
108
4
Conclusion
112
1
Contested territories: women's neighbourhood activism and German reunification
113
22
Fiona M. Smith
Introduction
113
1
Problematic relations between eastern German women and politics
114
3
The case study: neighbourhood activism in Leipzig
117
2
Learning the ropes: women's changing political subjectivities in neighbourhood action
119
8
Reworking local political femininities and their geographies
127
7
Conclusion
134
1
Negotiations of femininity and identity for young British Muslim women
135
18
Claire Dwyer
Introduction
135
2
Theorising about young women and femininity
137
1
The research context
138
1
Debating `appropriate' femininities
138
5
Negotiating `appropriate' femininities
143
3
Constructing alternative Muslim femininities
146
2
Negotiations of femininity and identity: imagining futures
148
3
Conclusion
151
2
Configuring and reconfiguring geographies
153
34
Introduction
153
1
Geographical constitution of femininities
154
19
Reconfiguring change
173
12
Conclusion
185
2
New femininities
187
11
Introduction
187
1
New femininities?
188
4
Reworking femininities
192
3
The geographies of new femininities
195
3
Further reading
198
5
Emergency work and `workfare'
198
1
Peru: political economy
198
1
Gender identities in Latin America
199
1
Motherhood and mothering
199
1
Childcare
200
1
Women in eastern Europe and the post-Soviet states
200
1
Women in the GDR and German reunification
201
1
German reunification
201
1
Femininity and adolescent girls
201
1
The theorisation of `new ethnicities'
202
1
Islam in Britain
202
1
Identities of young British South Asian women
202
1
Debates about the veil
202
1
Bibliography
203
18
Index
221