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Monk has made significant contributions to social and cultural geography, with a particular focus on women and minority groups in the US and Mexico and their livelihoods and health. Her work at SIROW involved several large research grants for cross-border and regional support to women's groups and
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was an argument to recognize the substantial contributions of women to the male-dominated discipline, and has been cited 450 times (2024). She has contributed more broadly to the importance of recognizing women in higher education, and the mentoring of women faculty members.
46:). She restudied the town of Griffith in the 2000s. Monk continued working at Illinois as assistant professor of geography from 1972 to 1980, but was unfairly denied tenure. She moved to Tucson, AZ to join the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) at the
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Her contributions to the discipline of geography have included more than 100 articles in scholarly journals on the development and history of feminist geography, where she is regarded as a pioneer. Her article in 1982 with
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in the same year, serving as its executive director from 1983 to 2004. On retiring in 2004 she became research professor of
Geography and Development, and then Emeritus Professor. She served as President of the
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42:(1963, 1972). The topic of her PhD was pioneering: the social conditions of Aboriginal People in rural New South Wales, Australia, living in white majority communities (
22:(13 March 1937 – 12 July 2024) was an Australian-American feminist geographer and researcher in the South West United States, and an Emeritus Professor at the
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245:. Janice Monk and Alice Schlegel, (eds). Phoenix: Arizona Women's Town Hall/Tucson: Southwest Institute for Research on Women, 1986.
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On Not
Excluding Half of the Human in Human Geography: interview with Janice Monk
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Feminist Geographies: Essays in Honour of Janice Monk
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Musings from the Meridian: Reflections on the Nature of Geography
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Compartiendo historias de fronteras: cuerpos, géneros, generaciones, y salud
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Practicing Geography: Careers for Enhancing Society and Environment
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Women of the European Union: The Politics of Work and Daily Life
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A book (A. Datta, J. Momsen, A. M. Oberhauser (eds.) 2023.
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Full Circles: Geographies of Women over the Life Course
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