The contention that geography and gender are inextricably connected
This essay explores the contention that geography and gender are seamlessly linked while looking into structures and systems in society that influence the fluid relationship. It focuses on the past and modern forms of power, media and representation in health and furthermore the idea of imaginative spaces.
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“The progression of gender is presented through marketisation and policies. Complex colonial power impacted both gendered and racialised women of places leading to the waves of modern feminism for agency over their livelihoods (Johson,2009). Gendered politics deconstructing norms for women was pivotal for societal development, however, gender is more than a biological binary of sex. Its definition is progressive and dynamic. Illustrated through Trans-Geographies, these norms threaten their identity in the construction of public spaces such as toilets (Doan,2010). The link between geography and gender intersects over different social categories. We cannot see feminism and LGBTQIA+ rights further if we do not understand the difference in class, gender and race in society (Momson & Townsend, 1987). The racial difference rights of wealthy white men countering coloured bodies through history in accessibility and quality of life illustrate the need for intersectionality in understanding gender. Temporally the role of gender identifies inequality due to global processes of dominance and power (Collins & Bilge, 2016), at different regional and national scales (Browne et al.,2010). Reclaiming agency through the deconstruction of gender as a binary has led to the utilisation of this for capital and performative allyship from corporations monetising identity through merchandise such as the pride flag design. In the biopolitics of health, the materialisation of gendered bodies in media and markets portrayal of masculinity being muscular as opposed to femininity being restricted to maternal has policed a certain gendered image and performance (Browne, 2004). Market economies articulate a power-geometry of inter-scalar social relations (Massey, 1994) of hierarchy through the capitalisation of gender. Despite equitable frameworks distinctions, gender overlapped with other forms of identity (Peake, 1993). Capitalism is rooted in profit and gender is being used today as the gauge of power over people's narratives. The geographies of difference through categories illustrate the seamless interlink to gender through the application of political regulation and economic profitability.”