Map worlds : a history of women in cartography /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Van den Hoonaard, Will. C. (Willy Carl), 1942- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Women cartographers > History. Cartography > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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 Midto Late-Twentieth-Century Pioneers and Advancers in North America
7 Late-Twentieth-Century 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 through the Present-Day Map World
13 Gender Shifts
Appendices. A Methodology ; B Topics covered in an in-depth interview ; C Overview of twenty-eight women pioneers in cartography.