Complex Locations: Women's Geographical Work In The Uk 1850-1970 (rgsibg Book Series)
Tags: Avril Maddrell

This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field.* A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970* Includes oral histories from women who have held appointments in British universities since World War II* Makes the work of women geographers visible and challenges the notion of pre 1970s geography as an overwhelmingly masculine field* Makes an important contribution to debates about the theoretical and methodological framing of the historiography of geography