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Geography 607 (Graduate Seminar) Gender and Geography
This course is designed to familiarize graduate students with the historiography of, and contemporary debates surrounding, gender and geography. We will read pieces by geographers working on gender and/or feminist theory, and also look at some research and writing by feminist theorists from other fields in order to situate work by geographers within broader feminist debates. Key to our discussions will be issues of difference and social hierarchies (gender, race, class, sexuality, age, etc.), identity/subjectivity, the politics of knowledge production and issues of power (including its symbolic and material dimensions). We will iterate between theoretical discussions and the application of these theories to concrete research questions and political struggles.
TopicsWeek 1: Feminist theory, difference and the politics of knowledge I Week 2: Feminist theory, poststructuralism and the politics of knowledge II Week 3: Tracing the emergence of feminist geographies Week 4: Space, place and gender Week 5: Gendering spaces of work, public and private Week 6: Gender, nation and 'the political' Week 7: Post-colonial and transnational feminism Week 8: Gender, globalization and 'development' Week 9: Gender, migration and citizenship Week 10: The politics and ethics of feminist methodologies in Geography |