Essay

Abstract Despite feminism’s contributions to planning theory and practice, it seems to be disappearing from the planning discourse. Drawing on the history of the feminist movement, experiences in the classroom, a scan of recent planning papers and publications, includ-ing some on planning curricula and women’s prospects within the profession in Canada and the USA, questions are raised about the reasons for this apparent decline. The authors ask if postmodernism is undermining the feminist and anti-racism movements by combining complex and intersecting identities into an amorphous notion of diver-sity, rather than explicating the differential relations of power embodied in these differences