Geographers Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies Volume 38 (Hardcover)

Women are the exclusive focus of the 38th volume of Geographers. For the first time in the serial s history the entire volume is devoted to important work of distinguished female geographers amply demonstrating how these scholars professional lives enrich the discipline s history. It also illustrates how reading and writing their biographies not only expands our understanding of geography s past but points to its more diverse future. The collection includes biographies of Doreen Massey winner of geography s Nobel prize the prix Vautrin-Lud for her remarkable contribution to geography and neighbouring disciplines which discovered the importance of space through her work; Helen Wallis geographer and historian of cartography who for many years had charge of the UK s foremost collection of maps; Alice Saunier-Seïté who applied her geographical training and formidable energy to teaching and educational reform in France; Isabel Margarida André who lived through a turbulent political period in her native Portugal and meticulously investigated its effect on women and political geography; and the many women who helped to create the UK s first Geography department - the University of Oxford s School of Geography - including Fanny Herbertson Nora MacMunn Marjorie Sweeting Mary Marshall Barbara Kennedy and other women geographers who are memorialised in a group article.