Gender, Identity and Place - Understanding Feminist Geographies by Linda McDowell : [review]

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.