蜗行20 年：女性主义地理学在台湾的发展 - 台湾大学地理环境资源学系.pdf

地理學報 第四十二期：25-46 (2005) 25 JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE (42) : 25-46 (2005) 蝸行20 年：女性主義地理學在臺灣的發展 Feminist Geography and Its Sluggish Development in Taiwan 張華蓀* Hua-Sun Chang Abstract In this paper, I draw on three waves of feminist geography to investigate the development of feminist geography and the environment of academy geography in Taiwan. The study shows that while feminism has gone through three waves of development, it is hardly taught and discussed in local academy. While there are many thorny gender issues inside and outside the academy, little gender-related research was held. Within the handful gender-related works, not much was informed by feminist ontology, epistemology, methodology and issues raised by the second and third wave feminism. In general, feminist geography and gender issues have not been taken seriously. Local academy geography still keeps itself in rigid barrier and leaves little spaces for feminism. Although constrains set by nationalism, chauvinism and academic capitalism structures may have caused it, passive reaction by the academy allows the structural constrains unquestioned and prevailed. It is time to take action to raise gender consciousness. We need to introduce feminist-oriented ontology, epistemology and methodology and critique current gender-blind habitués, institutions and research works. We must