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Hi Henry and all Point taken, but it's worth remembering that the UK academic mailing lists weren't set up and funded simply as free chat spaces. They differ from Listserv, Onelist and so on, because their content and target membership goes to vetting before the list is established and we have codes of content etc. Consequently, list administrators do intervene in debates occasionally (both privately and publically). I think my point was that people took the piss out of disability studies as a discipline for years (and still do in many North American universities, so far as I can see from stories on this list). It seems unwise for us to get involved in similarly panning something perfectly legitimate, and highly relevant to disability studies, just because a few peope haven't heard of it. The organisation and occupation on place and space are quite clearly gendered (and to assert otherwise would be bizarre in the extreme). A gendered approach is an entirely logical, and well established, tradition within social geography. So, I suppose I'm just a bit surprised by the reaction. We all seem quite happy to think about spaces and places as being central to disabling geography within a social model, so why on earth are people bothered by the notion of feminist geography? Or is it just because it's labelled 'feminist'? :-) Best Wishes Mark Priestley Disability Research Unit University of Leeds LEEDS LS2 9JT UK Tel: +44 113 2334417/2334418 Fax: +44 113 2334415 E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/dru/dru.htm %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%