Maps of Meaning

Jackson, p., (1992) Maps of Meaning, London:Routledge.

"Maps of Meaning" refers to the way we make sence of the world, rendering our geographhical experience intelligible, attaching value to the environment and investing the material world with symbolic significance.

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Human impact on the face of the Earth has become ever more insistent - we have no choice but to enlarge the geographical imagination.

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Cultire is 'the way the social relations of a group are structured and shaped, but it is also the way those shapes are experienced, understood and interpreted.

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Perhaps the most fundamental contribution of feminism to social theory has been the recognition that gender divisions (including so-called 'masculine' and 'feminine' personality traits) are socially constructed...Restraints formerly placed on women's actions...have increasingly been shown to have their roots in political and economic relations rather than in the laws of biology.