Jack Swab, University of Kentucky, USA, gives the second talk in session 3B in the seminar.
Beyond “clerical cartography”: gender and the production of Sanborn fire insurance maps in the 1920s
People:
Oxford Unit:
Keywords:
More in this Series...
An online conference focusing on mapping and closely linked professions such as surveying, exploration, navigation, hydrography, and printing, which have conventionally been associated with men: as makers, patrons, users, and interpreters. The conference explores the place of women and the feminine in maps and mapping, with no chronological or geographical bounds, and a broad understanding of 'maps'.