ABSTRACT
Feminist critiques of planning theory and practice have been at the forefront of the debates on planning and the city since at least the 1970s. In 1978, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Garmanikow, 1978) marked the growing field of feminist research into the city with a special issue, and by the early 1980s, books, special issues of journals and articles abounded in the Englishspeaking academic world. In these, planning was criticised for its genderblindness, its unresponsiveness to local needs and its technical-rational orientation.
