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Jacqueline Coutras
Jacqueline Coutras, born in 1942, is a French geographer, CNRS researcher, and pioneer of gender geography in France. Along with Jeanne Fagnani, she took part in the institutionalization of international feminist geography. In her 1996 book ''Urban crisis and gendered spaces'' she addressed the issue of sexual spatial asymmetries, and showed that if women have expanded the space to which they were traditionally confined through access to paid work and car driving, they nevertheless were not able to achieve full access to all spaces of socialization. Cities remain unequal spaces. Biography Jacqueline Coutras is a pioneer in gender geography and "an important reference for all feminist geographers". She is a CNRS researcher at the Institut de recherche sur les sociétés contemporaines (Iresco). She also holdthe the French academic title «agrégée in geography». She defended her post-graduate thesis in 1975 under the direction of Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier, on "economic a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Cahiers Du GRIF
''Les Cahiers du GRIF'' was a French language feminist periodical that examined women's views through kinship, politics, love, sexuality, knowledge, work, and creation. Founded in 1973 in Brussels by Françoise Collin, the last issue was published in 1994. * Issues one to 24 (1973 to 1978) and issues 25 to 28 (1982 to 1983) were published by GRIF. * Issues 29 to 48 (1984 to 1994) were published by Éditions Tierce. From 1980 to 1982 a total of seven Bulletins des Cahiers du GRIF have been distributed. History While visiting New York City in 1972, Collin became exposed to American feminism. She decided to start a feminist group in Belgium. In 1973, Collins formed a feminist group in Brussels called Groupe de recherche et d'information féministes (GRIF). It brought together Jacqueline Aubenas, Eliane Boucquey, Marie-Thérèse Cuvelliez, Marie Denis, Hedwige Peemans-Poullet, Geneviève Simon, Marthe Van de Meulebroeke, Suzanne Van Rokeghem, and Jeanne Vercheval. Together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Geographers
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or Adolescence, adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses are capable of pregnancy and giving childbirth, birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, ''SRY'' gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Sex differences in human physiology, Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. An adult woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. These characteristics facilitate childbirth and breastfeeding. Women typically have less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Geographers
French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), a 2008 film * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a type of military jacket or tunic * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French (catheter scale), a unit of measurement * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French Revolution (other) * French River (other), several rivers and other places * Frenching (other) Frenching may refer to: * Frenching (automobile), recessing or moul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Dolors García Ramón
Maria Dolors García Ramón (born 1943) is a Spanish geographer. She is emeritus professor of geography of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Early life and education García Ramón was born on 7 November 1943 in Gandia, Province of Valencia, Valencia. She has a BA and PhD from the University of Barcelona and an MA from the University of California. Career García Ramón was professor of geography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona from 1969 to 2010, and also held appointments as professor or research fellow at the University of Arizona, Cornell University, University of Buenos Aires, Durham University and the London School of Economics. She lists her research specialisms as Rural Geography, Geographical Thought, and Geography and Gender. From 1988 to 1996 she was Secretary of the International Geographical Union's Study Group on Gender and Geography. She was awarded the 2016 Vautrin Lud Prize (''Le Prix Vautrin-Lud''), which has been described as "the highest aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janice Monk
Janice Jones Monk (13 March 1937 – 12 July 2024) was an Australian-American feminist geographer and researcher in the South West United States, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment. Background Monk was raised in Sydney, Australia and held a B.A. (Honors) in Geography from the University of Sydney (1957). She moved to the United States on a scholarship, receiving an MA and PhD from the University of Illinois (1963, 1972). The topic of her PhD was pioneering: the social conditions of Aboriginal People in rural New South Wales, Australia, living in white majority communities (''Socio-Economic Characteristics of Six Aboriginal Communities in Australia: A Comparative Ecological Study''). She restudied the town of Griffith in the 2000s. Monk continued working at Illinois as assistant professor of geography from 1972 to 1980, but was unfairly denied tenure. She moved to Tucson, AZ to join the Southwest Institute for Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Raibaud
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Yves may refer to: * Yves, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in France * ''Yves'' (single album), a single album by Loona * ''Yves'' (film), a 2019 French film People * Yves (given name), including a list of people with the name * Yves Tumor, U.S. musician * Yves (singer), South Korean singer and producer See also * Eve (other) * Evette (other) * Yvette (other) * Yvon (other) * Yvonne (other) Yvonne is a female given name. Yvonne may also refer to: * Yvonne (band), a 1993—2002 Swedish group featuring Henric de la Cour * Yvonne (cow) a German cow that escaped and was missing for several weeks in 2011 * ''Yvonne'' (musical), a 1926 Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Mosconi
Nicole Mosconi (2 June 1942 – 7 February 2021) was a French philosopher and professor. A specialist in educational questions, she was a member of the from 2006 until her death. Biography Mosconi, née Aubineau, graduated from the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in 1961 with an agrégation in philosophy. She earned a doctorate from Paris Nanterre University in 1986 under the direction of with the title "La mixité dans l'enseignement secondaire : un faux-semblant ?" In 1992, she published "Savoir, rapport au savoir et différence des sexes". In 1994, she became a professor of educational sciences. Mosconi participated in research activities with the Centre de recherches éducation et formation in Nanterre, as well as at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. With her team in Saint-Denis, she contributed to epistemology research. With her Nanterre team, she published three books, titled ''Savoir et rapport au savoir'', ''Pour une clinique du rapport au sav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Geography
Social geography is the branch of human geography that is interested in the relationships between society and space, and is most closely related to social theory in general and sociology in particular, dealing with the relation of social phenomena and its spatial components. Though the term itself has a tradition of more than 100 years,Dunbar, Gary S. (1977): Some Early Occurrences of the Term "Social Geography". ''Scottish Geographical Journal'' 93 (1): 15-20. there is no consensus on its explicit content. In 1968, Anne Buttimer noted that " th some notable exceptions, (...) social geography can be considered a field created and cultivated by a number of individual scholars rather than an academic tradition built up within particular schools". Since then, despite some calls for convergence centred on the structure and agency debate, its methodological, theoretical and topical diversity has spread even more, leading to numerous definitions of social geography and, therefore, cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
