ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about the theoretical basis and empirical content of a feminist geography, specifically those being initiated by humanists and historical materialists. It proposes a general definition of a feminist geography as one concerned to understand the relationship between gender and environmental constitution. Feminist geography is about the way in which gender is constituted and how this relates to the constitution of the environment. Spatial separation has been correlated with an increasing differentiation between the gender categories woman and man. A good deal of feminist analysis is concerned to understand the nature and process of these changes. The chapter returns to feminist analysis as a whole in the discussion of some of the implications of this new focus for the study of human-environmental relations. It implies an interactive and creative relation between gender and environment, and much current research is devoted to understanding the nature of this relation.
