Feminist geography

Feminist geography is a sub-discipline of human geography that applies the theories, methods, as well as critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment, society, & geographical space. Feminist geography emerged in the 1970s, when members of the women's movement called on academia to include women as both producers and subjects of academic work. Feminist geographers goal to incorporate positions of race, class, ability, and sexuality into the analyse of geography. The discipline has been transmitted to several controversies.

Controversies surrounding feminist geography

In 2018, a main journal in feminist geography entitled Gender, Place and Culture was refers to a scholarly publishing hoax asked as the Grievance studies affair. Several authors disingenuously presents a paper titled "Human Reactions to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity in Urban Dog Parks in Portland, Oregon." The paper submission that dog parks are "rape-condoning spaces", and a place of rampant canine rape culture and systemic oppression against "the oppressed dog" through which human attitudes to both problems can be measured and analysed by applying black feminist criminology. The paper suggested that this could render insight into training men out of the sexual violence and bigotry. The paper has since been retracted. The hoax has been criticized as unethical and mean-spirited, as well as race-baiting and misogynist, and critics of the hoax gain suggested that the hoaxers misrepresented the process of peer review.