ABSTRACT
In writing a chapter about feminist geography, the title of this collection, New models in geography, loses its appropriateness. For there are no new models in feminist geography nor, indeed, any established set of models at all as this area of our discipline is a very recent arrival on the geographical agenda. It was4ess than ten years ago that the issue of the invisibility of women, both as the subjects of geographical study and as practitioners of the discipline, began to be raised. In the intervening years we have seen a remarkable burst of energy by geographers interested in feminist theory, and in the documenting of women’s inequality and oppression in all areas of social and economic life, in all parts of the globe. This period has been one marked by intellectual excitement as well as by the variety of methods and approaches adopted by all the teachers and researchers who have become participants in the geographical debate about women’s position and about changes in gender divisions_over space and time.
