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Inspired by, and drawing from, Jacqueline Tivers’ early and foundational paper in Area (1978) on the need for dedicated geographical research on women, in this brief paper I offer selected reflections on the progressive “engendering” of geography from the late 1970s to the present from the perspective of a feminist geographer with enduring interests in gender and development (GAD) in the Global South...
In this commentary I explore the groundbreaking interventions of Jacky Tivers’ (1978) “How the other half lives” (Area 10:4, pp. 302–306). I highlight its contribution in focusing attention on two specific issues: the underrepresentation of women as producers of geographical knowledge and the exclusion of women’s issues as a focus of geographical inquiry. I argue that the paper broke new ground in...
This paper reflects on the origins of Tivers’ 1978 paper “How the other half lives: the geographical study of women,” tracing these through a consideration of societal expectations at the time, which were mirrored in the content and approach of 1970s Geography in the UK. Attention is given here both to this original context of the paper and to its context in subsequent publications and in the overall...
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