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'Feminist Geography is more about feminism than geography'. Discuss Since its conception, geography has been involved in the development of races and genders, mapping the boundaries that separate and exclude the world of privilege from the other. The imperial eyes that facilitated this domination have recently been challenged to nullify their perpetuation of racial difference, and although existing more obscurely, to challenge the sexist legacy remaining in geography. "As part of geography, feminist approaches within our discipline take the same set of central concepts as their focus as other sub-areas of geography. Thus over the decade feminist geographers have addressed three of the central concepts of the discipline - space, place and nature - and the ways in which these are implicated in the structure of gender divisions in different societies" (McDowell, 1993). The above quotation illustrates the fundamental point of feminist geography; it is no different from geography as a whole...

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