Map worlds : a history of women in cartography /

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This book plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. The author examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fiel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van den Hoonaard, Will. C. (Willy Carl), 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Women cartographers > History.
Cartographers > History.
Cartography > History.
Femmes cartographes > Histoire.
Cartographie > Histoire.
Cartographes > Histoire.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Cartography.
Cartographers.
Cartography.
Women cartographers.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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-century 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.

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