Getting to the Dark Side of the Moon: Researching the Lives of Women in Cartography

Little did I suspect that a research project conceived by my enthusiasm for maps would lead me to embark on a convoluted but very instructive journey through the occupations inhabited by women cartographers. Unlike many other travels, however, its precise start eludes me. I also find myself not knowing when the journey will actually come to a close. Can it already be twenty-one years long? What explains its long duration? There is an intermingling of my own interests and talents, of the nature of the research itself, and of the new, contemporary demands of interdisciplinary scholarship. All three elements have