ABSTRACT
This chapter invites readers to engage with themes and approaches to feminist geography in a variety of ways. It looks at some of feminist geography's influences and the kinds of scholarship the authors as a subfield take on. Geography plays a key role in how gendered power relations impact peoples' lives and the places where they work and live. Geographers generally conceive of space as an abstract dimension, much like time, through which people move and travel, and onto which patterns can be mapped. Household and domestic spaces are a regular site of research for feminist geographers, as they question the seemingly harmonious and binary gendered relations within these spaces. Feminist geography examines how private spaces and the protection they are expected to afford become incorporated into public spaces to further understand social constructions of space.
