ABSTRACT
Recent challenges to the acceptability of traditional gender roles for men and women have been called the most profound and powerful source of social change in this century [76], and feminism is the “ism” often held accountable for instigating this societal transformation. One expression of feminism is the conduct of academic research that recognizes and explores the reasons for and implications of the fact that women’s lives are qualitatively different from men’s lives. Yet the degree to which geography remains untouched by feminism is remarkable, and the dearth of attention to women’s issues, explicit or implicit, plagues all branches of human geography.
