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Map Worlds : A History of Women in Cartography /

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
Autor principal: Van den Hoonaard, Will. C. (Willy Carl), 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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