GGRB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: American Geographical Society, Social Relation, Androcentrism
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Main point: the social fabric of social relation between men and women have shaped the social construction of geographical knowledge in ways that favour men. There is a loss of knowledge and therefore a lost of history that has concurrently occurred with the omitting of female perspective up until the mid 20th century. Domosh suggest victorian women experienced travel differently since women explorers could not escape the contexts in which they lived. There was a conflict between feminism and professionalization of geography as professionalization was limited to the few elite white males foster at the. Denied institutional support, victorian women explored and travelled at their own cost. They also wrote through themselves and not through sanctioned deeds: without sanctioning and support of prestigious geographical institutions, it was not possible for women(cid:495)s(cid:495) contributions to be recognized in the field of geography.
