Themed Issue on “Feminist Geography and GIS” Gender, Place and Culture, 9(3):271-279 Is GIS for Women? Reflections on the Critical Discourse in the 1990s
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Despite the progress in critical GIS research in recent years [1], geographical discourse is still dominated by dualist thinking that understands GIS largely as a tool for quantitative or empiricist spatial analysis. This dualist understanding of geographical methods which was partly fuelled by the fierce polemics between critical geographers and GIS users/researchers sparked off in the early 1990s has represented GIS as a method antagonistic towards critical perspectives and made it difficult for geographers to conceive a role for GIS in critical geographic research. [2] Strangely, while feminist geographers have made significant contribution in refreshing our understanding of the role of quantitative methods in geographical research (e.g. Lawson, 1995; Mattingly and Falconer-Al-Hindi, 1995; McLafferty, 1995; Moss, 1995; Rocheleau, 1995), little has been written to date on the possible role of GIS in feminist research.
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