Gendered Infrastructures: Space, Scale, and Identity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781959000082)

Brings together feminist and geographical approaches to the gendered dimensions of various types of infrastructure across the globe.

The first book to take a feminist geographical approach to infrastructure, Gendered Infrastructures delves into the complex relationships between identity, social relations, and infrastructure. By drawing on feminist scholarship to enable new frameworks for critical study, this edited volume explores the gendered nature of infrastructures as diverse as Senegal's waste disposal, Vietnam's cement industry, and Lilongwe's water kiosks. The chapters consider how infrastructural assemblages rework and shape gendered relations, identities, and meanings across space, while tracing the intersectionality of relations and uneven geographies that surround infrastructure. Ultimately, the contributors show how gender is always present in the quotidian building blocks that organize the socio-material world and daily life.

Edited by Yaffa Truelove and Anu Sabhlok, and the third book in Amy Trauger and Jennifer Fluri's Gender, Feminism, and Geography series, the original essays in Gendered Infrastructures respond to and build upon a "new infrastructural turn in critical scholarship"--one that has helped enliven studies of identity across scale. The volume is relevant to geographers, anthropologists, architects, sociologists, urban researchers, and other interdisciplinary scholars interested in the gendered and social dimensions of infrastructure.


Author: Yaffa Truelove
ISBN-10: 195900008X
ISBN-13: 9781959000082
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2024
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.70d