Beyond 'women and transport

Towards New Geographies of Gender and Daily Mobility

Bibliographic Data

ID5786643
AuthorsRobin Law (0000-0001-7199-3757, University of Otago, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume23
Issue4
Pages567-588
Publication date1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1191/030913299666161864
OpenAlexW2764461727
LanguageEN
Citations received226
References cited88

Over the last two decades, a feminist critique of gender-blind transportation research and planning has generated a spate of research into 'women and transport'. This article critically reviews this literature, and argues that it has come to focus on a relatively limited range of research problems (notably journey-to-work travel) at the expense of other relevant issues. An alternative approach is suggested which redefines the topic as 'gender and daily mobility' and incorporates it within a larger theoretical project investigating social and cultural geographies of mobility. Some areas of scholarship associated with the 'cultural turn' are explored to illustrate the potential for new approaches. The article then argues that future research on the topic must be based on a more systematic treatment of gender as a theoretical concept. A framework of analysis is outlined which identifies aspects of gender as a social category and symbolic code, and links it to aspects of daily mobility. The article outlines potential research questions identified through this analysis, and draws attention to a wide range of literature which may be brought to bear on the redefined topic area

Mobilities · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Rural development and sustainability · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Urban Transport and Accessibility

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