The changing concept of gender in Anglophone international geographical journals, 2013/14 and 2023/24

This article is the text of a lecture for the Geografía y Género [Geography and gender] group of the Autonomous University of Barcelona on 27th March 2025. It reports on a content analysis of article titles in 47 international Anglophone academic geographical journals in 2013/14 and 2023/24. The analysis includes titles and authorship in terms of gender and geographical background of 582 articles. In that time, gender themes became more prominent. The share of female authors remained more or less stable. Authors from non-Anglophone countries were more successful in getting access to these journals. Concepts such as ‘women,’ ‘feminism,’ ‘queer,’ ‘trans/cis,’ ‘intersectionality’ and ‘body’, and economic and environmental themes were more prominent in 2023/24 than in 2013/14. Feminist geography became more collaborative, and fieldwork is less often about the ‘global south’ and more written with authors from the ‘global south.’ Authors from non-Anglophone countries write more often about women and economic themes than authors from Anglophone countries. The analysis, therefore, demonstrates the dynamics and the placebound nature of feminist geography.