Space, Place, and Gender

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U of Minnesota Press, 1994 - Philosophy - 280 pages
"Massey, a leading feminist geographer, develops a notion of spatiality as the product of intersecting social relations. She traces the development of ideas about the social structure of space and place, and relates these concepts to issues of gender and various debates within feminism."--Provided by publisher.
 

Contents

Introduction
19
Industrial Restructuring versus the Cities
39
In What Sense a Regional Problem?
50
The Shape of Things to Come
69
Social Change and Spatial
86
Introduction
117
A Global Sense of Place
143
A Place Called Home?
157
Introduction
177
Space Place and Gender
185
A Womans Place?
191
Index
273
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About the author (1994)

Doreen Massey was born in Manchester, United Kingdom on January 3, 1944. She was educated at Oxford University and later received a master's degree in regional science at the University of Pennsylvania. She began her career working for a thinktank, the Centre for Environmental Studies (CES), in London. Her work with CES revealed several key analysts of the contemporary British economy. When CES closed, she became a professor of geography at the Open University and worked there until her retirement in 2009. She wrote and edited numerous books during her lifetime including For Space; Space, Place and Gender; and World City. She died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 72.

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