1 A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States, subordinate to a county. 2  Specific responsibilities and the degree of autonomy vary based on each state. 3  In many states, townships are organized and operate under the authority of state statutes, similar to counties. In western Canada townships exist only for the purpose of land division by the Dominion Land Survey and do not form administrative units. 2  These townships are six miles by six miles (36 square miles, or roughly 93.24 kmÂ²). 3  Townships are designated by their township number and range number.
The basic concept behind critical geopolitics is that intellectuals of statecraft construct ideas about places, these ideas have influence and reinforce their political behaviors and policy choices, and these ideas affect how we, the people, process our own notions of places and politics.
Feminist geographers approach these and other issues in uniquely critical, synthetic, and progressive ways that see gender as a fundamental analytical and organizing sociospatial category. The discussion which follows charts the emergence of feminist geography from particular contexts in a number of countries.