"Map Worlds" plots a journey of discovery through the world of
women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the
sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary
Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of
women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in
technical fields and cartography-related organizations, and
outlines the challenges they face in their careers.
The book explores women as colourists in early times, describes
the major houses of cartographic production, and delves into the
economic function of intermarriages among cartographic houses and
families. It relates how in later centuries, working from the
margins, women produced maps to record painful tribal memories or
sought to remedy social injustices. In more contemporary times, one
woman so changed the way we think about continents that the shift
has been likened to the Copernican revolution. Other women created
order and wonder about the lunar landscape, and still others turned
the art and science of making maps inside out, exposing the hidden,
unconscious, and subliminal "text" of maps. Shared by all these
map-makers are themes of social justice and making maps work for
the betterment of humanity.
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