Urban division of space: A gender category!.The Danish case

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Abstract
In this article a historical‐geographical analysis of the gender dimension of the urban division of space is developed. This is done by means of a discussion of the effect of three different, but interrelated themes; the gender division of labour, urban policy, and the actual processes of the feminization of poverty. It is argued that gender division of space is connected to the changing interrelationships between production and reproduction. With help of Danish examples it is shown how the contradictions between the two have had to be overcome by the women all along capitalist urbanization, and how this has had manifest spatial implications. It is concluded that this insight is a necessary condition of the understanding of urban division of space.