Feminist Geography (annotated bibliography)
Carrie Mott
Institution
University of Louisville
Department
Department of Geography and Geosciences
Introduction
Feminism exists to critically and self-reflexively examine regimes of power at work in everyday life. Through attention to social differences, such as gender, race, class, ethnicity, age, ability, and sexuality, feminist geography highlights the significance of difference in shaping experiences of space and place. Feminist geography emerged in the 1980s as a move within geography that took two primary directions. First, to open the discipline up to more female geographers, through more equitable hiring processes and attempts to shift oppressive departmental cultures.
Second, feminist geography encouraged geographers to develop scholarship that was mindful of gender and that included studies of women and women’s concerns. Since feminism’s early forays into geography, attention to gender has evolved into an emphasis on social difference more broadly construed. Feminist geographers have emphasized the significance of embodiment, emotion, and spaces of intimacy through geographic research. Today the term “feminist” within geography means different things. First, that one simply does geography with a feminist lens, approaching subject matter that falls under the headings of any of the more traditional subdisciplines, including geographies of the political, economic, social, or environmental. Second, feminist geographical approaches often
involve more participatory and inclusive methods in both research and publication. Third, feminist geographies are often rooted in social justice concerns, mindful of the capacity for scholarship to call attention to the ways affected communities are negatively impacted by oppressive forces at work in the world. Lastly, feminist geographers are concerned with how greater regimes of power, such as governmental and corporate entities, and problematic social norms, are experienced and negotiated in people’s everyday lives.
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