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geography and gender  

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  • Geographic considerations of gender have offered insights into the gendered construction of spaces and the importance of place to gendered lives. During the late 1970s, gender and geography emerged as an area of inquiry that contested the assumed figure of man as representing all of humanity in geography. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Gender and Geography]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/geography_and_gender

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