Place Matters: Comparative International Perspectives on Feminist GeographyFootnote∗

∗The author is indebted to many feminist geographers for the papers, letters, and conversations on which this paper draws, especially Joos Droogleever Fortuijn and Hae Un Rii who participated in a panel at the 1993 AAG meeting, Maria Dolors García-Ramon who hosted the Erasmus Course in Barcelona for which this paper was originally prepared, and members of the Geography Institute at the University of Heidelberg for their comments at a colloquium presentation of the paper.

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