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Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Volume 1, Number 1 (Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Carfax Publishing Company, 1994)
Reviewed by Camilla M. Cockerton Department of Geography Queen's University Kingston, Ontario
Gender, Place and Culture is decisively original -- the first journal to have feminist geography as its central theme. My first thought was, "It's about time!" Since the mid - 1960s, feminist geographic pioneers unearthed the meeting ground between feminism and geography. These innovators have been consistently publishing in mainstream geographic journals for at least the past two decades. This diverse and exciting body of work emerged to challenge "traditional" approaches to geography.
These (mostly) women were committed to transforming the discipline of geography as a whole rather than adding on yet another specialism. Indeed, their strategy of infusing feminist geography into the discipline was largely successful. The aim of this journal is to provide the focal point for this work, to bring together this fragmented, widely dispersed work. Gender, Place and Culture is a much - needed addition to geographic journals. The time is more than ripe, and the body of work amply large and diverse to warrant its introduction.
Gender, Place and Culture succeeds in reflecting the diverse body of feminist geographic thought. One of the journal's major strengths lies in the scope and range of the contributions. Many familiar names from previous feminist geographic work rise up here - Geraldine Pratt, Susan Hanson, Louise Johnson, Gillian Rose, and Peter Jackson among others - and there is space...