Women in Geography
- 6 March 2017
- book chapter
- Published by Wiley
- p. 1-9
Abstract
Although women have a long history in the discipline of geography, dating from the nineteenth century, they did not move into it in significant numbers until the 1980s. Questions about the representation of women in the discipline are starting to move from a concern with overall numbers vis‐à‐vis men to the chronic underrepresentation of women of color. Institutions representing women started to emerge in the 1970s, and a number of types of organization now serve the professional interests of women and promote gender‐based and feminist research. Their presence is geographically uneven and replicates that of women in the discipline, being well established in the Anglo‐American heartlands and more sporadic elsewhere. While the future for some women in Anglo‐America – those who are white, middle‐class, able‐bodied, and English‐speaking – seems certain, the possibility of a future of women in geography being racialized is much more uncertain. For those women outside Anglo‐America, issues of English‐language hegemony also dominate.Keywords
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