Gillian Rose is a British

United Kingdom

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 geographer

Geographer

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 and geographic author. As of May 2008, she is senior professor of culture at the Open University

Open University

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. She is best known for her 1993 book, Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge.
Rose's current research interests lie broadly within the field of visual culture

Visual culture

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. She is interested in the ways social subjectivities and relations are pictured or made invisible in a range of media, and how those processes are embedded in power relations.