Book Review: A feminist glossary of human geography

Abstract

But they are the sorts of things that one has come to expect from collections of this sort. My two favourites are Lechte’s Fifty key contemporaries thinkers (1994, Routledge) and Johnston et al.’s Dictionary of human geography (2000, Blackwell), both of which are examples of the encyclopedic-dictionary genre which succeed because they are scrupulously designed for ease of use and accessibility. The Dictionary of cultural theorists might be comprehensive in its coverage, but it suffers from the brevity of each individual entry. And it betrays a lack of attention to those features of design, organization, and integration which are essential if it is to be a useful pedagogic aid, rather than an idiosyncratic amalgam of unconnected great names.