Gender, Identity and Place ‐ Understanding Feminist Geographies

Fifteen years ago the Women and Geography Study Group (WGSG) ofthe IBG produced Geography and Gender, the first undergraduate text on feminist geography. In reviewing that text in 1985 I noted that from that point on "gender is on the agenda of a more fully humangeography" (Winchester, 1985: 119). That has indeed proved to be the case, with a proliferation of work on gender issues, a phenomenal development of a whole new sub-discipline of the geography ofsexuality, a much broader recognition of gender as a key axis of social differentiation, and the exciting new work on embodied geographies.