Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography - Hardcover

Hoonaard, Will C. Van Den

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1554589320 ISBN 13: 9781554589326

Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013

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Book by van den Hoonaard Will C

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"...an inspiring book that is fascinating and highly-researched. A take away message is thatwhilst women were always a minority, they have made major contributions to cartography. Theircommon ground is their love of maps and map making and their belief in the value of their work inteaching others to open their eyes to the world." - Jennifer Carter,School of Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast,Journal of The Australian and New Zealand Map Society, The Globe, Number 74, 2014.

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Map Worlds 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. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fields and cartography-related organizations, and outlines the challenges they face in their careers. Map Worlds explores women as colourists in early times, describes the major houses of cartographic production, and delves into the economic function of intermarriages among cartographic houses and families. It relates how in later centuries, working from the margins, women produced maps to record painful tribal memories or sought to remedy social injustices. Much later, one woman so changed the way we think about continents that the shift has been likened to the Copernican revolution. Other women created order and wonder about the lunar landscape, and still others turned the art and science of making maps inside out, exposing the hidden, unconscious, and subliminal "text" of maps. Shared by all these map-makers are themes of social justice and making maps work for the betterment of humanity.

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• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1554589320
• ISBN 13: 9781554589326
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 394