ABSTRACT
An alternative look at the research reviewed above on gender and migration can be obtained through locating this work with respect to a ‘map’ of the evolution of feminist scholarship within geography. Such a perspective is useful, not only because it enables us to order work to date but also because it suggests something of the future directions that work on gender and migration in the developed world might take. Clearly, there are a number of ways in which the contribution of feminism within geography might be ordered. Here, we draw primarily upon the structure suggested by McDowell-after Harding (1986) and Di Stefano (1990)—in two recent review articles (McDowell 1993a, 1993b). McDowell recognizes three broad families of feminist geography, although it is vital from the outset that we do not see these as being either mutually exclusive or as forming a clear chronology. The three categories of ‘pedagogical convenience’ (McDowell 1993b:305) are feminist empiricism, standpoint feminism and postmodern feminism.
