Over the last two decades, a feminist critique of gender-blind transportation research and planning has generated a space of research into `women and transport'. This article reviews this literature, and argues that is has come to focus on a relatively limited range of research problems (notably journey-to-work travel) at the expense of other relevant issues. An alternative approach is suggested which redefines the topic as `gender and daily mobility' and incorporates it within a larger theoretical project investigating social and cultural geographies of mobility. Some areas of scholarship associated with the `cultural turn' are explored to illustrate the potential for new approaches. The article then argues that future research on the topic must be based on a more systematic treatment of gender as a theoretical concept. A framework of analysis is outlined which identifies aspects of gender as a social category and symbolic code, and links it to aspects of daily mobility. The article outlines potential research questions identified through this analysis, and draws attention to a wide range of literature which may be brought to bear on the redefined topic area. (A)
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