Talk:Feminist geography

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From VfD:

Not notable. Only geography links to it. Essentially useless. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 04:23, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

• Keep. I had never heard of it, but a web search turns up enough that it seems like a legitimate topic. 4,710 Google hits, and for a specialized area of socio-political analysis, that's not bad. SWAdair | Talk 04:49, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. I have heard of it. It is an important field within the broader study of cultural geography... (which doesn't appear to have it's own article). AdmN 05:27, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Good stub. I've learned something. Andrewa 06:59, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Although could use some work, if possible. Darksun 09:30, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Keep.--Samuel J. Howard 13:29, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Not a very good stub IMHO. I'd never heard of "feminist geography," but Googling turns up a ton of hits (4800), mostly relevant, and many with very respectable academic pedigrees. A legitimate placeholder for a legitimate topic. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:31, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Keep: I agree with Dpbsmith. Avant garde cartography and geography took off in the 1980's, and it's very interesting. I'm left a bit cold by this description, but I have such deep seated doubts about the appellation that I think the interested and trained parties are the only ones who can improve the stub. (I think Foucault's Power/Knowledge was, in fact, a series of talks with some cartographers.) Geogre 01:12, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Masculine chauvinistic porcine that I am, to me, the phrase "feminist geography" evokes the Cole Porter lyric: "I love the looks of you, the lure of you,/I'd love to make a tour of you,/The eyes, the arms, the mouth of you,/The east, west, north, and the south of you." Oink, oink. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:35, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

And I just think of John Donne: "O my America, my new found land/ Safeliest when with one man manned." My doubts about the subject have to do with stuffy arguments about transhistorical subjective states and assumptions of essentialism. Geogre 04:01, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

• Keep; never heard of it, and my first thought upon seeing the title was that "many feminists object to the current cartography of Florida, Italy, and Kamchatka. . . ." So I guess I learned something. Smerdis of Tlön 14:35, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Keep and hope for edits. If it isn't made more substantive, maybe make it a section in geography? -Seth Mahoney 19:07, Aug 23, 2004 (UTC)
• Merge with geography and delete. This poor little stub introduces a term but does nothing to elucidate. It can always become a break-out article later on. Denni☯ 21:44, 2004 Aug 26 (UTC)

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It is a notable subject - and a very important area of human geography - the article is heavily lacking though. I plan to have a good go at this article in the near future... --Cooper-42 11:37, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

• Should keep this legitimate academic subject. It does make reference to geography and sexuality. I think that it should link to the page on sexuality and space. These two topics are closely related in their approach. Herngong (talk) 11:42, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

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