Feminist Interventions: Southern Europe/Mediterranean

Abstract

In Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece, the feminist perspective in geography appeared in the early 1980s as a result of the rise of the feminist movement and contact between the researchers and the production of knowledge in Europe and the United States. Since then, the production has been concentrated in specific research groups and universities working mainly on the experiences of women's daily life and gendered spaces in cities from a critical perspective. The cultural turn in social sciences has contributed to the increased scientific production and to diversifying the topics of analysis. Conscious of their peripheral position in the production of knowledge, feminist geography researchers have created a space for feminism in their contexts, though not without much internal resistance. Internationalization has been essential to legitimate gender and geography studies in Southern European academia.