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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ontario :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- 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.


