Abstract
Landscape study is approached from humanistic, aesthetic, and scientific perspectives, motivated by quests to understand, to appreciate, and to manipulate. It is concerned with human experience and with the values and ideologies shaping both that experience and the landscapes we create. There are important ethical issues to address what should be our responsibility to the landscape, and how should the be shaped so that it best meets the needs of all segments of the population? Within such enterprise lies ample scope and need for examining relationships between gender and landscape. Yet, as I will illustrate, research has emphasized men's interactions with and we know relatively little about how women respond to landscape, how they represent it in their creative work, how they shape the landscapes of their lives, or how their lives are affected by the landscapes they experience. The purpose of this brief review is to provide examples of the limitations of traditional research with respect to its treatment of gender, to identify work that is emerging on women and landscape, and to suggest approaches and themes for future exploration. Before proceeding, I should comment on the concept of landscape identified as ambiguous and elusive term even by those devoted to its study. ' Nevertheless, certain key ideas recur in the writings, the most important of which are that incorporates the natural and cultural featureswe see around us, and that it has personal and cultural meaning.2 Meinig has identified as an intimate intermingling of physical, biological, and cultural features.3 For Relph it is the visual context of our lives.s4 Landscape, however, is not a passive context it communicates to us and provides stimuli that influence our behavior.' Fur-
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