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Author Van den Hoonaard, Will. C. (Willy Carl), 1942- author.

Title Map worlds : a history of women in cartography / Will C. van den Hoonaard.

Publication Info. Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 377 pages) : illustrations, maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the strands through map worlds -- Who is a cartographer? -- The thirteenth to seventeenth centuries -- The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (1666 to 1850) -- Cartography from the margins : from the early twentieth century to World War II -- Mid-to late-twentieth-century pioneers and advancers in North America -- Late-twentieth-centure pioneers and advancers in Europe, Asia, and Latin America -- "Getting there without aiming at it" : women's experiences in becoming cartographers -- "We are good ghosts!" : orientations and expectations of women cartographers -- Educational opportunities and obstacles -- The gendered social organization -- Female pathways though the present-day map world -- Gender shifts.
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Subject Women cartographers -- History.
Women cartographers.
History.
Cartographers -- History.
Cartographers.
Cartography -- History.
Cartography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version:Van den Hoonaard, Will C. (Willy Carl), 1942-, author. Map worlds. (CaOONL)20139036091
Print version: Van den Hoonaard, Will. C. (Willy Carl), 1942- Map worlds. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013] 9781554589326 (DLC) 2013464676 (OCoLC)830352925
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