Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Map worlds : a history of women in cartography
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Place
Date
2013?
Physical Description
xv, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781554589326
9781554589333
9781554589340
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
1. Introduction : the strands through map worlds
2. Who is a cartographer?
3. The thirteenth to seventeenth centuries
4. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (1666 to 1850)
5. Cartography from the margins : from the early twentieth century to World War II
6. Mid-to late-twentieth-century pioneers and advancers in North America
7. Late-twentieth-centure pioneers and advancers in Europe, Asia, and Latin America
8. "Getting there without aiming at it" : women's experiences in becoming cartographers
9. "We are good ghosts!" : orientations and expectations of women cartographers
10. Educational opportunities and obstacles
11.The gendered social organization
12. Female pathways though the present-day map world
13. Gender shifts.
Public Access Text
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-351) and index.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
06 Dec 2024
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