Genealogía de la geografía feminista en España

Abstract

In this paper I draw a genealogy of the first years of feminist geography in Spain. I carry out a conceptual reconstruction of how and why contemporary Spanish female geographers of this first period are located within the theoretical feminist tradition. To do so, I conducted a bibliographic review covering the period from 1970s to 1990s of the twentieth century. Feminist geographic objects of study and knowledge tools allowed researchers to make inquiries and explanations of the phenomena observed in the social space. These objects and tools are analyzed to get to know who they were inherited from. Thus, this work reveals the origins of the particular feminist approach applied by those geographers. It signifies how that approach initially enabled them to build knowledge about the subordinate condition of women and the spatial organization of inequities among men and women. This research shows how Spanish female geographers engaged with Enlightenment feminism.