De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography

Feminist Political Geography is a relatively new, but rapidly growing, area of interest in Geographical scholarship. It emerged from feminist engagement with the sub-discipline of Political Geography, which broadly concerns the intersection of politics, power, and space, and it responds to silences and absences in this sub-discipline as well as wider silences in Geography scholarship. While early scholarship in Feminist Political Geography concentrated on including women’s bodies and lives in scholarship, its focus has evolved and expanded over time. Today, Feminist Political Geography scholarship advances broader goals that do not necessarily entail a research focus on women, but push us to think about other lives and bodies that are traditionally absent from analysis. It challenges us to reimagine and build just futures. Like all feminist analysis, this body of scholarship is not content with describing or explaining injustices: it advances a normative critique of injustice and overtly commits itself to the project of justice. In this book, the reader will find chapters authored by leading scholars who interrogate key ideas, debates, and developments, with a particular focus on intersectional ideas. Structured into four sections that go from the origins of Feminist Political Geography to its futures, this handbook is the definitive, state-of-the-art survey of this vibrant sub-discipline.

Sydney Calkin is Reader in Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Dr Calkin is an interdisciplinary feminist social scientist with interests in political geography and International Relations. She is the author of Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom Across Borders (2023) and the co-editor of After Repeal: Rethinking Global Abortion Politics (2020), co-edited with Kath Browne. Her current work explores self-managed health and pharmaceutical geographies in sexual, reproductive and LGBTQ health.

Cordelia Freeman is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Exeter. Dr Freeman is a political geographer whose work primarily explores borders, mobility and reproduction, with a particular interest in Latin America. Her recent research concerns the mobilities of abortion in Latin America which is the focus of her book Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America (2025). Her current work examines reproductive justice amidst chemical pollution.