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Feminist geography is a sub-discipline of human geography that applies the theories, methods, and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment, society, and geographical space. [1] Feminist geography emerged in the 1970s, when members of the women's movement called on academia to include women as both producers and subjects of ...
Feminist anthropology is a four-field approach to anthropology (archeological, biological, cultural, linguistic) that seeks to transform research findings, anthropological hiring practices, and the scholarly production of knowledge, using insights from feminist theory. [1]
Feminist political ecologists argue that gender is a crucial variable in constituting access to, control over, and knowledge of natural resources. Feminist political ecology combines three gendered areas: knowledge, environmental rights, and grassroots activism. Gendered knowledge encompasses the maintenance of healthy environments at home ...
This work has formed a crucial link between feminist geography and geography of media and communication. Written from a Marxist and radical feminist perspective, Feminism & Geography stimulated a series of debates within geography about the nature of how geographic knowledge is constructed. Rose is known for defining identity as "how we make ...
Feminist anthropology was formally recognized as a subdiscipline of anthropology in the late 1970s. [ 2 ] The history of the Association for Feminist Anthropology began in 1988, when a group of American anthropologists met in Phoenix, Arizona with the goal of establishing, "in the beginning, an 'anthropology of women' and later, a feminist and ...
J. K. Gibson-Graham have provided significant contributions to understandings of community economies and economic geography. In both A Postcapitalist Politics and The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), Gibson-Graham "propose to construct a new 'language of economic diversity'" [5] that will contribute to our understandings of possible economic structures. [5]
Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography is a peer-reviewed journal published 12 times a year by Taylor & Francis.It is the leading international journal in feminist geography and it aims to provide "a forum for debate in human geography and related disciplines on theoretically-informed research concerned with gender issues".
[2] [3] [4] More recent edited volumes compiled by Margaret Lock, Judith Farquhar, and Frances Mascia-Lees provide a better window into current applications of embodiment theory in anthropology. [5] [6] The theoretical background of embodiment is an amalgamation of phenomenology, practice theory, feminist theory, and post-structuralist thought. [7]