Feminist economic geographies

If economic geography is primarily concerned with studying the generation and allocation of scarce resources across space, feminist intervention into this discourse has involved the inclusion of gender and the sexual division of labour as fundamental to the economy; critical evaluations of key concepts, assumptions, methods and studies; and their reformulation to create very different feminist economic geographies. Feminist economic geography therefore involves both critique and construct (Gunew, 1990). A feminist approach – putting women and their disadvantage relative to men central to analysis and ameliorative action – has been applied to the analysis of labour markets internationally, nationally and within cities, as well as to how workplaces, paid and unpaid, both create and construct gendered subjects. In so doing, notions ...