Map worlds : a history of women in cartography / Will C. van den Hoonaard.

Author
Van den Hoonaard, Will. C. (Willy Carl), 1942- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013]
Description
xv, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-351) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : the strands through map worlds
    • Who is a cartographer?
    • The thirteenth to seventeenth centuries
    • The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (1666 to 1850)
    • Cartography from the margins : from the early twentieth century to World War II
    • Mid-to late-twentieth-century pioneers and advancers in North America
    • Late-twentieth-centure pioneers and advancers in Europe, Asia, and Latin America
    • "Getting there without aiming at it" : women's experiences in becoming cartographers
    • "We are good ghosts!" : orientations and expectations of women cartographers
    • Educational opportunities and obstacles
    • The gendered social organization
    • Female pathways though the present-day map world
    • Gender shifts.
    ISBN
    • 9781554589326 ((hbk.))
    • 1554589320 ((hbk.))
    • 9781771121262 ((paper))
    • 1771121262 ((paper))
    LCCN
    2013464676
    OCLC
    830352925
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