The Women's Atlas

By Joni Seager

'An invaluable feminist resource, hip cultural conversation about feminism, and example of cutting-edge data visualization, this beautifully designed new edition of Seager’s award-winning atlas matches the mood of the moment­ with bold, vivid infographics to illustrate the status of women worldwide and the diversity of their experiences.

‘A life-saver and page-turner… This will add to everyone’s knowledge and power. Nobody should be without this book.’ Gloria Steinem

Joni Seager’s visually stunning survey of up-to-the-minute global data redefines what is meant by an atlas. Comprehensive and accessible, her incisive prose combined with the creative use of illustration, charts and infographics portray as never before how women are living across continents and cultures—the advances that have been made and the distances still to be travelled.

The result is the most up-to-date global analysis of key issues facing women today: gender equality, literacy and information technology, feminism, the culture of beauty, work and the global economy, changing households, domestic violence, LGBTQ rights, government and power, motherhood, and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Myriad Editions
• Release date: Oct 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781912408313

Joni Seager

Joni Seager is a feminist geographer and Professor of Global Studies at Bentley University in Boston. She has achieved international acclaim for her work in feminist environmental policy analysis, the environmental costs of militaries and militarism, and gender and climate change.Seager is the author of many books, including five editions of the award-winning feminist classic The Women’s Atlas, two editions of The State of the Environment Atlas, and Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms With the Global Environmental Crisis.She has been an active consultant with the United Nations on several gender and environmental policy projects, including consulting with the United Nations Environmental Programme on integrating gender perspectives into their work on disasters and early warning systems, and with UNESCO and the Division on Economic and Social Affairs on gender in water policy.

Reviews for The Women's Atlas

[chapeaux location · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Very disappointing! I have always been impressed by previous editions going back to the 1980's, and they have been a wonderful way of literally mapping women's progression/ regression in the world. But in this edition 'design' is more important than the content, with hip new colorful ways to basically tell us much much less. Was it done like this just to produce an edition quicker with less research? An atlas isn't a coffee table book, and facts speak louder than pretty presentation. What a waste of an excellent idea.