Linda McDowell

Prior to completing her PhD, she lectured at the Open University. She then returned to the University of Cambridge, where she had studied as an undergraduate.^[1] She took a chair at London School of Economics in 1999, after which she moved first to University College London and then, in 2004, to the University of Oxford.^[1]

She is an economic geographer, who describes herself as an ethnographer of work and employment.^[3] She wrote the first paper on feminism in the journal Society and Space,^[1] while her three books on work and gender —Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City, which explored the role of gender in the City of London's financial services;^[4] Gender, Place and Identity, which offered a broader introduction to gender and geography;^[1] and Redundant Masculinities, which explored masculinity in the context of economic downturns^[1] — have been major contributions to feminist geography and geographies of gender.^[1] More recently, her research has explored labour and economic migration since 1945.^[2]

McDowell's work has received numerous awards. From the Royal Geographical Society she has been awarded the Back Award and the Victoria Medal. In 2008, she became a fellow of the British Academy.^[4] She is also a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.^[5] McDowell has edited the journals Area and Antipode.^[2]

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to geography and higher education.^[6]

• (2016) Migrant Women's Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945. Bloomsbury,ISBN 9781474224505.
• (2013) Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945-2007. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444339192.
• (2009) Working Bodies: Interactive service employment and workplace identities. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-5977-7.
• (2005) Hard Labour: the forgotten voices of Latvian migrant 'volunteer' workers. UCL Press / Cavendish Publishing, London. ISBN 1844720209.
• (2003) Redundant Masculinities? Employment change and white working class youth. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 978-1-4051-0585-9.
• (1999) Gender, Identity and Place. Cambridge: Polity.
• (1997) Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City of London. Oxford: Blackwell
• (1991). Life without father and Ford: The new gender order of post-Fordism. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 400–419
• (1991). Multiple voices: Speaking from inside and outside the project. Antipode 24, 56-72