![]() van den Hoonaardġ Introduction: The Strands through Map Worldsģ The Thirteenth to Seventeenth CenturiesĤ The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (1666 to 1850)ĥ Cartography from the Margins: From the Early Twentieth Century to World War IIĦ Mid- to Late-Twentieth-Century Pioneers and Advancers in North Americaħ Late-Twentieth-Century Pioneers and Advancers in Europe, Asia, and Latin AmericaĨ "Getting There without Aiming at It": Women's Experiences in Becoming Cartographersĩ "We Are Good Ghosts!": Orientations and Expectations of Women Cartographersġ0 Educational Opportunities and Obstaclesġ2 Female Pathways through the Present-Day Map Worldī Topics Covered in an In-Depth InterviewĬ Overview of Twenty-Eight Women Pioneers in Cartography Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography by Will C. This strand also looks behind the social organization of cartography as the backdrop of those experiences. The third strand deals primarily with the experiences, problems, and obstacles contemporary women face in cartography. ![]() The vignettes describe their parentage, education, careers, contributions to cartography, and anything else that would explain the circumstances of their place and time in cartography. This strand offers vignettes (brief biographical sketches) of twenty-eight women who were (or are) pioneers or major advancers of cartography. The second strand concerns itself with contemporary women pioneers in cartography starting around 1880 and up to the present. ![]() This strand represents a recuperative history of women in cartography. One strand explores pockets of cartography where women have been particularly active and have contributed significantly to the field in the historical sense. I have identified three strands of research interests. Part of the awakening process involves fresh research on women who have made important or interesting contributions to cartography (see, for example, Steward, 2001). It is only through the recent passage of time that map librarians, cartographers, map collectors, and historical cartographers have begun to consider more explicitly the role of women in map-making. Had these changed drastically as well? As a modern individual, I wanted to apply the contemporary pincer of analysis: What role does gender play in all of this? I had originally envisioned Atlas Shrugged as a title for this book, but had Atlas truly shrugged? Was it a momentous shrug, signifying a radical departure of the old ways? Or was it a shrug of the kind that said,”So what?” This is one of the themes of this book: Have the technological changes that captivated cartography over the past thirty-six years also been reverberating through the organization and lives of women who are drawn to this field? As a social scientist, I began wondering about the social organization of cartographers-their world, their culture, and their habits. This awakening was a compelling one, for it demonstrated the earthquake-like technological shifts within cartography beyond anyone’s imagination. In the thirty-six years between my making my last etch as a cartographic editor at Falk-Plan (a European map company) in 1966 and my re-entry into the world of cartographers- this time as a social scientist-the field has become unrecognizable. Oftentimes, the world of women cartographers seems to be hidden, much like the so-called dark side of the moon, but as every thinking person knows, the invisible side of the moon bathes in the sunlight just as much as the one that faces us does.įew fields have changed as dramatically as cartography. No less significantly, it also recounts the experiences of women with contemporary cartography. Map Worlds has set itself the task of recovering these women from history. The world of mapmakers is somewhat known to us, but we have only a microscopic knowledge about the involvement of women in map-making. van den Hoonaardīehind some eight thousand contemporary women from around the world stand not only more than five hundred years of history, but also one of the most popular cultural productions in the world: maps. ![]() Excerpt from the Introduction to Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography by Will C.
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