Feminist Visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research
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, 92(4), 2002, pp. 645–661 © 2002 by Association of American Geographers Published by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, and 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, UK. Richly evocative figures exist for feminist visualizations of the world as witty agent . . . We just live here and try to strike up non-innocent conversations by means of our prosthetic devices, including our visualization technologies.
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