TY - JOUR
T1 - Consensus and invisibility
T2 - The representation of women in human geography textbooks
AU - Mayer, Tamar
PY - 1989/11
Y1 - 1989/11
N2 - Neither the accomplishments of feminist scholarship, nor recent geographic research on women, seems to have had much effect on the representation of women in human geography textbooks. Relying on a set of traditional models, these texts reproduce the gender blind fictions of consensus, neutrality, and objectivity that the models and the textbooks themselves construct. Because the texts that initiate students into the discipline lag so seriously behind current consciousness and scholarship, women’s invisibility not only continues in the human geography curriculum and classroom but is actually intensified by our own pedagogy.
AB - Neither the accomplishments of feminist scholarship, nor recent geographic research on women, seems to have had much effect on the representation of women in human geography textbooks. Relying on a set of traditional models, these texts reproduce the gender blind fictions of consensus, neutrality, and objectivity that the models and the textbooks themselves construct. Because the texts that initiate students into the discipline lag so seriously behind current consciousness and scholarship, women’s invisibility not only continues in the human geography curriculum and classroom but is actually intensified by our own pedagogy.
KW - Gender
KW - Ideology
KW - Language
KW - Textbooks
KW - Women
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0024786080&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.0033-0124.1989.00397.x
DO - 10.1111/j.0033-0124.1989.00397.x
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AN - SCOPUS:0024786080
VL - 41
SP - 397
EP - 409
JO - Professional Geographer
JF - Professional Geographer
SN - 0033-0124
IS - 4
ER -