Women in the Geographical Thought

Abstract

The feminist movement, among other social movements active in the 1970s, has contributed with new subjects and trajectories to the discipline of geography. It has introduced novel methods (both qualitative and quantitative) and unconventional approaches both to geographic research as well as to gender studies. Furthermore, these studies propose issues regarding behavioral discrepancies between women and men in the environment, vocational spheres, and the conceptualization of space. Scholars have proceeded to inscribe a novel branch of geography, namely, “feminist geography”. Modernity and globalization have opened new fields of engagement for women, which has contributed to feeding into the horizons of geographic research whose trajectory concerns itself with the ambivalent relationships between modernity and women’s work in the service sector and the criticisms thereof. This study is an introduction to feminist thought in geography in the fields of tourism and economic geography, only as examples, in order to dwell further on geographic research concerned with feminist and women issues and its controversies.