
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 38
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
Published on 18. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-1-350-36792-0 (ISBN)
Description
Women are the exclusive focus of the 38th volume of Geographers. For the first time in the serial's history, the entire volume is devoted to important work of distinguished female geographers, amply demonstrating how these scholars' professional lives enrich the discipline's history. It also illustrates how reading and writing their biographies not only expands our understanding of geography's past, but points to its more diverse future.
The collection includes biographies of Doreen Massey, winner of geography's 'Nobel prize', the prix Vautrin-Lud, for her remarkable contribution to geography and neighbouring disciplines which discovered the importance of space through her work; Helen Wallis, geographer and historian of cartography who for many years had charge of the UK's foremost collection of maps; Alice Saunier-Seite, who applied her geographical training and formidable energy to teaching and educational reform in France; Isabel Margarida Andre, who lived through a turbulent political period in her native Portugal and meticulously investigated its effect on women and political geography; and the many women who helped to create the UK's first Geography department - the University of Oxford's, School of Geography - including Fanny Herbertson, Nora MacMunn, Marjorie Sweeting, Mary Marshall, Barbara Kennedy and other women geographers who are memorialised in a group article.
The collection includes biographies of Doreen Massey, winner of geography's 'Nobel prize', the prix Vautrin-Lud, for her remarkable contribution to geography and neighbouring disciplines which discovered the importance of space through her work; Helen Wallis, geographer and historian of cartography who for many years had charge of the UK's foremost collection of maps; Alice Saunier-Seite, who applied her geographical training and formidable energy to teaching and educational reform in France; Isabel Margarida Andre, who lived through a turbulent political period in her native Portugal and meticulously investigated its effect on women and political geography; and the many women who helped to create the UK's first Geography department - the University of Oxford's, School of Geography - including Fanny Herbertson, Nora MacMunn, Marjorie Sweeting, Mary Marshall, Barbara Kennedy and other women geographers who are memorialised in a group article.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 154 mm
Width: 232 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-36792-0 (9781350367920)
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Persons
Elizabeth Baigent is University Reader in the History of Geography at the University of Oxford, UK. She is Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Higher Education Academy.
Andre Reyes Novaes is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Co-ordinator of the Postgraduate Programme in Geography at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Andre Reyes Novaes is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Co-ordinator of the Postgraduate Programme in Geography at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Editor
University of Oxford, UK
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Content
List of Contributors
Editorial, Elizabeth Baigent (University of Oxford, UK) and Andre Reyes (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
1. Doreen Massey, 1944-2016, Rogerio Haesbaert (Association of Brazilian Geographers, Brazil) and Ana Angelita Rocha (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2. Oxford Women Geographers, Elizabeth Baigent (University of Oxford, UK), Claire Hann (University of Oxford, UK), Susan Squibb (University of Oxford, UK), and Heather Viles (University of Oxford, UK)
3. Alice Louise Saunier-Seite, 1925-2003, Hugh Clout (University College London, UK)
4. Helen Margaret Wallis, 1924-1995, Sarah Tyacke (Archivist and Independent Historian, UK)
5. Isabel Margarida Andre, 1956-2017, Diogo Gaspar Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Index
Cumulative Index
Editorial, Elizabeth Baigent (University of Oxford, UK) and Andre Reyes (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
1. Doreen Massey, 1944-2016, Rogerio Haesbaert (Association of Brazilian Geographers, Brazil) and Ana Angelita Rocha (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2. Oxford Women Geographers, Elizabeth Baigent (University of Oxford, UK), Claire Hann (University of Oxford, UK), Susan Squibb (University of Oxford, UK), and Heather Viles (University of Oxford, UK)
3. Alice Louise Saunier-Seite, 1925-2003, Hugh Clout (University College London, UK)
4. Helen Margaret Wallis, 1924-1995, Sarah Tyacke (Archivist and Independent Historian, UK)
5. Isabel Margarida Andre, 1956-2017, Diogo Gaspar Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Index
Cumulative Index