Gender and Geography

Running Head : GENDER AND GEOGRAPHY

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Instability of gender can be equated to instability of the roles gender takes in a society

Changing roles of gender has challenged identity more than presence of transgender and transsexual minority

Changes in the political , social and economic systems results to changes of the roles of women

Role of women in the changing of her role in the society

Modernization and globalization play to change roles

Evolution of new roles

for women to overcome the existing barriers in the society such as economic barriers within families

Role of movement of people and social interactions in the changing of the roles of women in the society

Role of feminism and women literature in the change of women roles

Gender vs . race

In the introduction to Gender , Identity and Place , Linda McDowell (1999 asks `If there is no longer a stable category `woman , how may we make claims on her behalf

The challenge transgender and transsexuality may be asserted to have brought to the definition of woman ' cannot be considered a challenge because of the minority , even with the question of identity of who a woman is in the transsexual population . The ability of people across gender to shape local environments through mobility and accessibility to resources differs even because of gender and sexual orientation (Valentine , 1995 1997 , Rothernberg , 1995 Knopp , 1998 qtd . in Preston and Ustundag . Differences within The fear and terror of loosing ones place...