UNDERSTANGING GENDER GEOGRAPHY

 Introductiion:

Geography is one of the leading disciplines which are classified under two categories.. Physical Geography and Human Geography. Social Geography, economic geography, political geography and cultural geography are important branches of human geography. Gender geography is the sub branch of Social geography. Gender relations are sought to be explained in the context of locality research. The same holds true in other subject like, economic geography, political geography and cultural geography. Cultural geography focuses on the cultural processes and social practices which connects people and places at a range of scales from the local to the global. Rapid economic restructuring through the processes of globalization appears to be opens ‘new spaces’ of political or social interaction for women of course such processors may not be always positive. The forces of globalization are equally, likely to result in re-making or reworking of existing gender relations.

The subject geography is multidisciplinary in its nature. It always ties up with various aspects of socio-cultural, economic and political disciplines. Status of women is a subject matter of sociology. Through the social geography one can easily understand such status in space and place context. Social feminist geographers have been increasingly attentive to the ways in which gender relations differ from place to place and assumed that such differences not only reflect but partially determine local economic change. Such an orientation in study and belief, the factors for social transformation were influential in trying feminist geography movment towards locality research.