Bridging Worlds - Building Feminist Geographies

Anindita Datta is Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Delhi and the current Chair of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography. Her work focuses on gendered and epistemic violence, indigenous feminisms, spaces of resistance and geographies of care. A member of several international editorial boards and collaborations such as the NORAD, Linnaeus Palme and Erasmus Mundus programmes, Anindita is committed to feminist mentoring and building transformative networks of care across differences. Her recent books include Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes and the Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geography (co-editor). Janet Momsen was a founding member of the Gender Commission in 1988 and was Chair from then until 1996, continuing as Treasurer until 2006. She is Emerita Professor of Geography, University of California, Davis. Her research is mainly on gender and agricultural development. She has also taught in England, Canada, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and South Africa. She has published 17 books, founded and is current Editor of the Routledge series on International Studies of Women and Place. Ann M. Oberhauser is Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University and holds a PhD in Geography from Clark University. Her research focuses on feminist economic geography, gender and globalization, feminist pedagogy, and critical development studies with an emphasis on rural economic strategies in Appalachia and sub-Saharan Africa. Her publications include Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context and Global Perspectives on Gender and Space. Oberhauser is a long-time member of the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender, the Society of Woman Geographers, and the Feminist Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.

Bridging Worlds – Building Feminist Geographies: Essays in Honour of Janice Monk


PART I: Gender and Feminist Geographies: Perspectives from around the World




Connecting Distant Academic Landscapes, Inspiring Researchers: Jan Monk’s Role in Developing Gender Geography and Geohumanities in Spain



Crossing Borders, Exotic Women and the Challenge of Teaching Gender in World Regional Geography and Area Studies Courses



Centering Fireside Knowledge and Utu Feminisms: On Writing Feminist Margins from the Margins



The Value of Feminist Scholarship: Renegotiating Spaces for Gender and Geography in Post-Communist Romania



Women in Geography: The Case of the International Geographical Union


PART II: Career Trajectories of Women Geographers – Strategies to Survive and Thrive


"Making Zonia Known": Discussing Baber’s "Peace Symbols" (1948)



Janice Monk and Evelyn Stokes: Two Women Geographers from Down Under Break New Ground



The ‘Excluded Half of the Human’ in Brazilian Geography: The Life Course of Women in a Scientific Field



Being (From) There: Antipodean Reflections on Feminist Geography



Valuing Mentoring: Jan Monk’s role in Creating a Community of Support for Early Career Researchers



Students’ Evaluation of Instruction: A Neoliberal Managerial Tool Against Faculty Diversity


PART III: Gendered Geographies of the Life Course: Work and Everyday Life




Migrant Women’s Everyday Lives and Work Burdens: Insights from Kusumpur Pahari, Delhi



Challenging Instability: Women’s Multigenerational Narratives of Work in the Margins of Central and Eastern Europe

Life Course in the New Processes of Re-Ruralization in Spain

Independence and Entrepreneurship Among Arab Muslim Rural and Bedouin Women in Israel


PART IV: Gender and Environmental Concerns: Change, Crisis and Recovery




Social Change in Griffith, NSW, Australia: Discourses of Indigeneity, Identity, Justice and Well-Being over Fifty Years



Gender and the Food History of the Caribbean: The Case of Cassava in Barbados



COVID-19 and Tourism in the Island Pacific: Gender Tribulations and Transformations in Different Seas



Women and Waste Recycling in the State of São Paulo, Brazil



Women’s Stories of Loss and Recovery from Climatic Events in the Pacific Islands