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This chapter outlines some of the ways in which the issue of gender divisions has been tackled by geographers over the last decade or so. Like all areas of geography, feminist geography has developed in a social and political context that has had an influence over the type of issues selected for analysis and the methods adopted to investigate them. A great deal of feminist geographical work has been concerned with analyses of women's lives and of gender relations outside the workplace, in the home, and in the community. This work has thus fallen within the ambit of urban and social geography. The chapter traces the history of feminist work on gender roles and gender relations in the home and community and show how, recently, the theoretical concerns of feminist geographers in the urban and social field have converged with those in the field of industrial and regional geography.