本書原文的作者多數是女性主義地理學界巨擘型學者,他們已對這個研究領域投入一生的時間與精神,並在全球性別研究中扮演舉足輕重的角色,或在大學中教授女性主義地理學課程,或指導性別地理研究論文的學者,並對高等教育性別地理學有深刻的影響。透過此譯本的引介,希望能讓華文讀者分享這些經典的作品。期待讀者看過之後能因感動而投入這個領域,使女性主義地理學能源遠流長,這將不是最後一本女性主義地理學翻譯本。Gender,SocietyandSpace—SelectedtranslationsisasignificanttextdevelopedfromtheclassofthesamenamethathasbeentaughtbyProf.NoraChiangattheDepartmentofGeography,NationalTaiwanUniversityforthelasttenyears.Thefourteenselectedpapersaregroupedintothreesections:“TheoryandConceptualizationofIssues,”“EmpiricalResearchonClass,Ethnicity,andMobility,”and“MethodologyandPractice.”TheoriginalworkswerewritteninEnglishbydistinguishedscholarsinthefieldoffeministgeographyinthewesternworld.TranslatedintoChinese,theywillhelpalargenumberofteachersandstudentsinotherpartsoftheworldwherethisliteratureisnotreadilyavailable. JaniceMonk,A.A.G.President2001-2002